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Re: differece between mkfifo and mknod ... p
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: differece between mkfifo and mknod ... p |
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Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:08:01 -0600 |
Peng Yu wrote:
> By discouraging people from using it for a long period (say 10 years),
> its support can be dropped eventually which will reduce future
> maintenance costs of this duplicate code.
Removing it would needlessly break old scripts. It used to be the
only way to create named pipes. It should continue for backward
compatibility indefinitely. There is no reason not to do so.
Bob