Re: mknod implementation clarification...thanks for the help

2003-02-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
James, As I guessed, the point is to create a named pipe (a.k.a. "fifo"). Here's what you need to (but doubtless do not want to) know: At 01:15 2002-11-12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:00:44AM +0100, Marcos Lorenzo wrote: > I have a backup script that uses mkfifo. Obviously

mknod implementation clarification...thanks for the help

2003-02-24 Thread james . m . barker
Here's the sample code that calls mknod. I always do a bad job of explaining in words what I'm trying to accomplish. Hopefully the sample code does a better job of it. I'm glad to hear that plans are in the work to include this capability. A series of "write" commands are made to gvFD to commun