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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: FIFO's a.k.a. named pipes (Do they exist?)
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 04:34:49 EST
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> My sysV manual talks about opening a FIFO, but I can't seem to find how I
> might create one.

The "mknod" system call in S3/S5 is not privileged if you're creating an
inode of type S_IFIFO; that's how you create a FIFO.

	Guy Harris
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