mknod for BSD 4.3

Jonathan I. Kamens jik at athena.mit.edu
Mon Apr 22 17:08:31 AEST 1991


  Are you trying to use mknod to create a named pipe or fifo?

  If so, then that's yur problem.  BSD 4.3 does not support them.  The
"mknod" program under BSD 4.3 can only be used to make special
devices, not named pipes or fifos.

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