Re: /dev/xconsole
> > 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?
>
> You're right. xbase, the provider of xconsole, should make the
> /dev/xconsole fifo in its postint. I'm filing a bug report with this
> message. For benefit of the xbase maintainer, the command, once again,
> is:
> mknod -m 644 /dev/xconsole p
Is the reason for this not existing also the reason that rxvt complains
to me about not being able to open the console for reading?
Maarten
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