Re: Python mknod(... stat.S_IFSOCK) failure

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> writes:

> Which directory is it creating the socket in? /dev by any chance?

Nope, just my home directory.

> Can you try doing the same using mknod(1)?

If this is actually the same thing:

  (sid_kfreebsd-amd64-dchroot)rlb@falla:~/bup-0.25~rc2$ mknod foo p
  (sid_kfreebsd-amd64-dchroot)rlb@falla:~/bup-0.25~rc2$ ls -l foo
  prw-r--r-- 1 rlb Debian 0 Sep  8 00:04 foo

> If it works, can you run both using ktrace(1) and compare the output
> of mknod syscall?

Thanks.  Doing so led me to suspect it may just be (k)freebsd's
mknod(2):

  https://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-September/010625.html

So perhaps we'll have to consider special casing on the relevant
platforms.

Thanks
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Rob Browning
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