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
