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Clarify use of mkfifo() versus mknod(). 

as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455825
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Michael Kerrisk 2007-12-14 07:04:07 +00:00
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@ -175,13 +175,16 @@ or
is not 0, the behavior of
.BR mknod ()
is unspecified."
However, nowadays one should never use
.BR mknod ()
for this purpose; one should use
.BR mkfifo (3),
a function especially defined for this purpose.
Under Linux, this call cannot be used to create directories.
One should make directories with
.BR mkdir (2),
and FIFOs with
.BR mkfifo (3).
.\" Unix domain sockets with .BR socket " (and " bind ),
.BR mkdir (2).
.\" and one should make Unix domain sockets with socket(2) and bind(2).
There are many infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS.
Some of these affect