On 4/16/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm guessing pipes can't be made on FAT systems, but why not? And
because fat doesn't support them.
> where is the source for mkfifo so that I could make it less cryptic?
> According to whence it's in /sbin but ls /usr/src/sbin | grep mk only
Hi,
This is probably simple, but google doesn't have much on it.
If, on a FAT filesystem, I do:
#mkfifo pipe
I get
"mkfifo: pipe: Invalid Argument"
If I cd up to / and try again:
#mkfifo pipe
#ls -L pipe*
prw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Apr 17 09:15 pipe
I'm guessing pipes can't be made on FAT s
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