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From: tlukka@vipunen.hut.fi (Tuomas Lukka)
Subject: Re: 386bsd and fifo (named pipes)
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Date: 21 Oct 92 13:36:08 GMT
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In <5957Y5B@desert.in-berlin.de> hell@desert.in-berlin.de (Steffen Hellwig) writes:

>Hi there!

>Does anybody got a kernel that supports named pipes?
>I tried to build one (added option FIFO in my config-file), but that
>seems not work.
>Neither 'mkfifo' from shell nor 'mknod' from C brings any result.

>Maybe its a FAQ, if so, could anybody POST a actual version of the
>386bsd.FAQ (i have no FTP-accses) ?

Compiling the kernel is not enough... you have to tweak the include
directories a little and remake it from scratch.

At least I got it working this way.

	TJL

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