At 01:28 PM 2/24/2003 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Please clarify what use your software makes of mknod. > >Do I guess correctly that what you really want are named pipes?
I don't know about others, but I would use mknod for a loopback block device. Then I could mount images of filesystems, e.g. ISOs, floppies, etc. Regards, - Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
