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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Named pipe with mknod
Date: 30 Sep 1996 22:27:03 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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gorski@cips01.physik.uni-bonn.de wrote:
> Compile the program below and run it. On FreeBSD it produces:
> mknod: Invalid argument
[EINVAL] The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit
set.
Well, this doesn't seem to be your answer either. :-)
> Why ??
> I thought this should run on FreeBSD without using mkfifo.
No. UTSL. You can easily see that the kernel will only allow VCHR
and VBLK nodes. (Plus all IFMT bits set, the comment says that
badsect uses this to flag bad sectors. Legacy.)
--
cheers, J"org
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