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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:52:15 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: mknod implementation? any idea when it will occur?
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Robert,

Mknod itself is scarcely the issue, is it? Device node file system 
entries are just a way of making contact in user-land (or is it 
file-system-land?) with "kernel" software entities such as drivers or 
special file types.

The real issue is getting the implementation of those special kernel 
software entities.

That certainly goes for a loopback device or named pipes, a random 
number generator (at least one of which already exists, of course) and so on.

Does Cygwin have a loopback block device? Does it have named pipes?

Randall Schulz


At 13:44 2003-02-24, Robert Citek wrote:

>At 01:28 PM 2/24/2003 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >Please clarify what use your software makes of mknod.
> >
> >Do I guess correctly that what you really want are named pipes?
>
>I don't know about others, but I would use mknod for a loopback block
>device.  Then I could mount images of filesystems, e.g. ISOs, floppies, etc.
>
>Regards,
>- Robert
>
>
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