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From: abs@cs.sun.ac.za (Andre Skarzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: mkfifo not supported on FreeBSD ?
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Date: 21 Sep 93 20:32:43 GMT
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Yanping Ding (chris@shell.portal.com) wrote:

: Is it correct that mkfifo is not supported on FreeBSD ?

: When I type 'mkfifo foo' I get a message which says:

: mkfifo: foo: Operation not supported


: I tried to recompile the kernel with option FIFO, but got a lot 
: of undeclared fifo_* in kern/fifo_vnops.c file.

Strange. This worked for me. Did you remember to run config ?

After putting FIFO in my kernel config file and then running config, building
a new kernel, mkfifo command worked. You must have made a mistake in your
config.

: Any suggestion to get around ?

: Thanks.

: C. Ding
: --
: Chris Ding
: chris@portal.shell.com

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