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Re: [PATCH,HURD] mknod: allow to create also sockets
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Pino Toscano <toscano dot pino at tiscali dot it>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, bug-hurd at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH,HURD] mknod: allow to create also sockets
- References: <201209281501.57147.toscano.pino@tiscali.it>
What's the point of ever creating a local-domain socket node with mknod?
They are created on demand when you use bind.