Portable mknod ?? does it exist?

[Jim Reid]

In article <2320 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
# >dec: decnod
# >myfifo created
# >dec: ls -l myfifo
# >crw-r--r--  1 drs      255, 255 Aug  1 16:54 myfifo
#
#That ain't no FIFO, that's a character special file.  The "mknod" call
#in the original posting looked OK, so either there's something funny in
#that code or there's a bug in Ultrix that causes it to create character
#special files when you ask it to create FIFOs....

Or the ULTRIX ls command can't tell the difference between fifos and
character special files....

		Jim