On Wednesday 04 July 2007 14:10:57 you wrote:
> hi folks,
>
>
> Now I have a question. I ran a programm that wanted to make a FIFO and that
> did not work. So I tried it via 'mkfifo xyz'.
>
> The Fox receipts my efforts with the message 'operation not permitted'. Why
> does it? root should have the permission and the program does its work on
> the host without being run by root. Where is the problem?
>

The directory has to be writable for this.
I have no problem creating a fifo in directory /mnt/flash/
but 
in the root-dir '/' the operation fails with:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mkfifo xyz
mkfifo: xyz: Read-only file system

Eberhard

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