> ObBug: if you use the SunOS tmpfs, try > > cd /tmp; /usr/etc/mknod fifo p; ln fifo link; ls -ClFg link fifo > > ...but not at peak hours! > > Sun knows about it and after a year, there's still no fix. [As > far as I know -- if there's one, I'd love to hear of it, so I can > tell the computer center here to add the darn thing: after hearing > of this one, they hacked the kernel and removed the mkfifo and > mknod S_IFIFO system calls. <sigh>] been looking into this & i know what the problem is - it happens on any special node, not just fifo's. sys/tmpfs/tmp_vnodeops.c needs fixing, but I dont have the source. ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk |