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- From: haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Named pipes and mknod...
- Summary: How do you make one, what is the use of this thing...
- Keywords: named pipe mknod FIFO
- Message-ID: <haley.720956802@husc11>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 09:46:42 GMT
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- HiHo:
- The documentation is as clear as mud so I'll ask:
-
- How does one use mknod either in a shell or in C? Please give
- examples.
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- The man pages suggest how exactly one uses it to make that damned dir
- entry, which tells me nothing of the mechanism for connecting a driver
- to it...
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