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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] how to open ( file, O_SYNC | O_WRONLY ) Date: 11 Feb 1994 11:13:14 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2jfp8a$ark@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2j418c$2co@mercury.mcs.com> <19830@auspex-gw.auspex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <19830@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, Guy Harris <guy@Auspex.COM> wrote: >>I see that mkfifo(1) exists but is under development. > >...seems to imply, FreeBSD 1.0e doesn't yet *implement* named pipes, >well, you may be out of luck if you want to *open* a named pipe. It supports it, but not by default. (Why, I suppose because no-one has verified that it's not completely fixed.;-) The man page should probably be updated. (more things todo) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.