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From: gorski@cips01.physik.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Named pipe with mknod
Date: 30 Sep 1996 13:07:28 GMT
Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany)
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <GORSKI.96Sep30150728@axiom.somewhere.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: rhrz-ts3-p3.rhrz.uni-bonn.de
Compile the program below and run it. On FreeBSD it produces:
mknod: Invalid argument
Why ??
I thought this should run on FreeBSD without using mkfifo.
################################################################################
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
main()
{
if ( (mknod("fifo", S_IFIFO|0666, 0))==-1 )
perror("mknod");
}