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- From: georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym)
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- In-Reply-To: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 13 Nov 92 23:17:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <GEORGN.92Nov20003127@idcrisis.noweh.com>
- Sender: georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym)
- Organization: Noweh Software, Mississauga, CANADA
- References: <1dtssaINN59p@life.ai.mit.edu> <fVdXweJ@quack.sac.ca.us>
- <15492@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:31:29 GMT
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- In article <15492@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-
- I suspect the authors of that document simply didn't realize that:
-
- 1) the "make a FIFO" function of "mknod()" never *was*
- privileged;
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- 2) the "make a non-FIFO special file" function of "mknod()"
- still *is* privileged;
-
- or perhaps suffered from some other form of confusion.
-
- Or could it be that the authors have never heard of or seen fit to use
- a named pipe? ;-)
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