FIFO's a.k.a. named pipes (Do they exist?)

Guy Harris guy at rlgvax.UUCP
Fri Mar 1 19:34:49 AEST 1985


> My sysV manual talks about opening a FIFO, but I can't seem to find how I
> might create one.

The "mknod" system call in S3/S5 is not privileged if you're creating an
inode of type S_IFIFO; that's how you create a FIFO.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy



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