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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Named Pipes in NetBSD 0.9 Date: 04 Feb 1994 21:21:30 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 10 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Feb4162130@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <David.Chappell.1.000C0E76@Mail.Trincoll.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu's message of Thu, 3 Feb 1994 17:03:18 GMT In article <David.Chappell.1.000C0E76@Mail.Trincoll.Edu> David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu (David Chappell) writes: I have compiled the NetBSD kernal with "option FIFO" in the config file, but mknod() return errno=1. You don't use mknod() to make fifos; you use mkfifo(). mknod() is (usually) used to make device nodes, and thus only root can use it.