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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Is it possible to use FIFOs (named pipes) in 386BSD 0.1?
- Reply-To: scott@lopez.marquette.MI.US
- From: scott@clmqt.marquette.MI.US (Scott Reynolds)
- Message-ID: <DvSXe-Cn3@clmqt.marquette.MI.US>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 01:59:43 EDT
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- I added the FIFO option, hand twiddled the .depend file so that the
- appropriate files, e.g. fifo_vnops.c would be compiled properly,
- linked and installed the new kernel, and made a fifo with mkfifo(1).
- I did a "cat fifoname &" and then said "echo hello >fifoname" -- and
- wouldn't you know it, the machine hung. Dead in the water, so to speak.
- So now I wonder -- can it be done? I have an application that would
- prefer to use fifos as a portability consideration (it was written in a
- XENIX environment).
-
- If this can't be done, or my concept of fifos is totally wrong (which
- could be true, admittedly) please let me know. I'd appreciate hearing
- whether or not this is possible. Thanks!
- --
- Scott Reynolds
- scott@{clmqt,lopez}.Marquette.MI.US
- A094@NMUMUS.BITNET
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