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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Named Pipes in NetBSD 0.9
Date: 04 Feb 1994 21:21:30 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu's message of Thu, 3 Feb 1994 17:03:18 GMT


In article <David.Chappell.1.000C0E76@Mail.Trincoll.Edu>
David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu (David Chappell) writes:

   I have compiled the NetBSD kernal with "option FIFO" in the config
   file, but mknod() return errno=1.

You don't use mknod() to make fifos; you use mkfifo().  mknod() is
(usually) used to make device nodes, and thus only root can use it.