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Re: /dev/xconsole



Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> writes:

> It's not clear to me that MAKEDEV should be making named pipes. We
> could have a MAKEPIPE script for that :-) . Doesn't some X package
> make this?

If it is a permanently installed named pipe, it should probably be
made by MAKEDEV.

However, temporary named pipes do not belong in /dev.

Dan
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Daniel Quinlan          Member of the League for Programming Freedom
quinlan@bucknell.edu



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