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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Named Pipes in NetBSD 0.9 Date: 6 Feb 1994 17:23:17 -0500 Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2j3qkl$3di@sparc10.entropic.com> References: <David.Chappell.1.000C0E76@mail.trincoll.edu> Reply-To: kenh@wrl.epi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc10.entropic.com Keywords: named pipes FIFO In article <David.Chappell.1.000C0E76@mail.trincoll.edu>, David Chappell <David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu> wrote: >I have compiled the NetBSD kernal with "option FIFO" in the config file, but >mknod() return errno=1. Do named pipes work? Did you try using mkfifo() instead? :-) I believe I had to do a "make clean" when I enabled FIFO's since make depend couldn't get all of the dependencies right; but the definately work under NetBSD 0.9. --Ken