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2003 Nov 30
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FreeBSD mknod refuses to create pipes and fifos
...+ case S_IFIFO: + case S_IFSOCK: + error = 0; + break; default: error = suser_xxx(0, p, PRISON_ROOT); break; @@ -1217,6 +1221,12 @@ break; case S_IFBLK: vattr.va_type = VBLK; + break; + case S_IFSOCK: + vattr.va_type = VSOCK; + break; + case S_IFIFO: + vattr.va_type = VFIFO; break; case S_IFWHT: whiteout = 1; 1) I'm not sure if FIFO and/or SOCK creation with mknod should be allowed to non-root users. This patch allows non-root to create them, but it's easy to change that. 2) Should we allow IFREG creation with mknod? I did not find a reason to...