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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: mkfifo not supported on FreeBSD ?
In-Reply-To: alm@netcom.com's message of Tue, 21 Sep 1993 02: 48:12 GMT
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 04:34:39 GMT
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>>Is it correct that mkfifo is not supported on FreeBSD ?
>
>mkfifo IS supported.   But you need a kernel built with options FIFO.
>This should be the default in subsequent FreeBSD kernels.

You didn't read his posting closely enough - he claimed that options
FIFO gave him grief.  I'm trying a compile now and...

../../kern/fifo_vnops.c:71: `fifo_lookup' undeclared here (not in a function)
../../kern/fifo_vnops.c:72: `fifo_create' undeclared here (not in a function)
../../kern/fifo_vnops.c:73: `fifo_mknod' undeclared here (not in a function)

POOF!  He's right!   *whooops*.  Looks like we need to look into this
one, folks!  Thanks!  I suspect that the fix is relatively trivial.

				Jordan
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(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.