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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!portal!chris From: chris@shell.portal.com (Yanping Ding) Subject: Re: mkfifo not supported on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <CDp3xH.32o@unix.portal.com> Sender: news@unix.portal.com Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe.unix.portal.com Organization: Portal Communications Company X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <CDoHIv.Jq8@unix.portal.com> <almCDonsD.Mw9@netcom.com> <JKH.93Sep21043439@whisker.lotus.ie> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 08:36:51 GMT Lines: 25 Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.lotus.ie) wrote: : >>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. : POOF! He's right! *whooops*. Looks like we need to look into this : one, folks! Thanks! I suspect that the fix is relatively trivial. I got help. Thanks Jonas! The following fixed my problem. > The config setup is a bit messed up when adding FIFO. I recommend: > 1. delete /sys/compile/<yourkernel> > 2. cd /sys/i386/conf > 3. config <yourkernel> > (that has: options FIFO #Support for FIFO files) > 4. make depend; make > > Jonas Olsson > -- Chris Ding chris@portal.shell.com