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Re: differece between mkfifo and mknod ... p
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: differece between mkfifo and mknod ... p |
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Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:43:15 +0100 |
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On 3/13/21 2:56 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> If not for backward compatibility, I’d think mknod ... p should be removed,
> for this syntax is worse than that of mkfifo.
Just because the style to invoke it is ... different?
This functionality is there since "The beginning", i.e., visible in the first
coreutils commit. How could we be 100% sure that no one is using it? I'd say
the backward compatibility aspect counts here. I'd let the dog sleep.
Have a nice day,
Berny