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Open VMS - special FIFO file
Name: sharitha Date: August 1, 2005 at 08:19:18 Pacific OS: Open VMS CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Hi All, In unix there is a system call called as mknod.which actualy creates a FIFO special file.Is ther any similar system call that can be used in VMS
Name: marchunan Date: August 1, 2005 at 13:30:04 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
On OVms, we can either use POSIX for OVMS standard routines, or OVMS TCPIP service calls, these are used for socket programming, we can create FIFO spl files by passing pathname arg, and permission-bits arg.
It has been discussed many times in OpenVMS forums (ITRC) and there are info on OVMS ask wizard. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_8248.
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