inode types on BSD 4.2.

gwyn at brl-vgr.UUCP gwyn at brl-vgr.UUCP
Wed May 16 03:01:02 AEST 1984


Mode 010000 on AT&T UNIX is a FIFO special file (named pipe).
It is nice that Berkeley avoided assigning this to something else
since this improves compatibility between the two flavors of UNIX.



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