Re: Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote:
> Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the
> package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script
> the consensus that this was the best option available.
You may use mkfifo instead of mknod, since there is no policy
prohibition on mkfifo (and it can't be used to make special
files). Perhaps we can add a footnote to policy mentioning mkfifo where
the mknod prohibition is written?
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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