mknod for BSD 4.3

Quang Ngo quang at CSUFRES.CSUFRESNO.EDU
Mon Apr 22 16:51:41 AEST 1991


The man page section 2 says that only super-user can access mknod().  Is 
there any other funtion that does what mknod() does?  Our system doesn't
have fifo().  /etc/mknod is not accessable by users. Too bad, I can't
even do a system("/etc/mknod ....") call.

Any suggestions?

-Quang (quang at csufres.CSUFresno.EDU)



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