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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!vipunen.hut.fi!tlukka From: tlukka@vipunen.hut.fi (Tuomas Lukka) Subject: Re: 386bsd and fifo (named pipes) Message-ID: <tlukka.719674568@vipunen.hut.fi> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Nntp-Posting-Host: vipunen.hut.fi Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland References: <5957Y5B@desert.in-berlin.de> Date: 21 Oct 92 13:36:08 GMT Lines: 24 In <5957Y5B@desert.in-berlin.de> hell@desert.in-berlin.de (Steffen Hellwig) writes: >Hi there! >Does anybody got a kernel that supports named pipes? >I tried to build one (added option FIFO in my config-file), but that >seems not work. >Neither 'mkfifo' from shell nor 'mknod' from C brings any result. >Maybe its a FAQ, if so, could anybody POST a actual version of the >386bsd.FAQ (i have no FTP-accses) ? Compiling the kernel is not enough... you have to tweak the include directories a little and remake it from scratch. At least I got it working this way. TJL -- /--\ TJL -- Tuomas J. Lukka tlukka@vipunen.hut.fi ------- Just /-\ o\ Puistokaari 1E18 /--------------------\ | J go \o \-/ 00200 Helsinki I GONE FISHING AGAIN > | to \__/ SIGh.. Finland T. +358-0-6923924 \--------------------/ |___ sleep..