Peter Fales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:17:32PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> And please tell us whether it's also trying the mkfifo call.
>> (you can just look for HAVE_MKFIFO in lib/config.h)
>
> Looking at the code around line 1690 in copy.c, it talks about
> using mknod instead of mkfifo. Is this something that changed
> recently? It looks like mkfifo may be required on on darwin.
Yes.
In fact, there is a fix for precisely that MacOS X mknod vs. mkfifo
problem.
2007-01-03 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use mkfifo as a fallback if mknod fails.
Needed on MacOS X.
I've just made a new snapshot. Would you please try it instead:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz
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