[comp.lang.perl] mknod

tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) (03/17/90)

Speaking of enhancements, I could use a mknod().

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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (03/19/90)

How often are you really going to need mknod?  Do you really
expect to run it more than once per program?  I can see a FIFO
here and there, but not much else.  You weren't perhaps planning
on rewriting MAKEDEV?

--tom
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