Hi! On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:09:25PM +0000, Paul Pruett wrote: >>Isn't /tmp mounted with option nodev, by chance?
>Would not explain it failing in /dev >[...] How does it fail? Try for example (manually): mkfifo foo mknod foo c 1 1 You see mknod fail with "File exists". Even on a filesystem *not* mounted nodev. (But then, MAKEDEV uses rm -f before mknod, as far as I can see, so that should not be the problem.) What *can* be an issue is that mknod inside a chroot is not allowed, as well as mknod as non-root (except for pipes, i.e. mknod <path> p, which is the same as mkfifo <path>). Kind regards, Hannah.
