Thread: Data read and write

Two thoughts.
1. You weren't super user when you tried this, and the place you tried to make it requires privilege.
2. Running Linux on FAT32 is a dumb idea.

The short answer is to write a short program along the lines of

Code:

int main ( ) {
  int result = mknod("path",mode,dev);
  if ( result != 0 ) {
    perror("It didn't work");
  }
  return 0;
}

Then post your actual results you get from your console.

Originally Posted by shilpac

I thought using a pipe would be best solution for this, But when I am trying to create a pipe using mknod on fat32 file system in linux , it throws an error saying "mknod: operation not permitted".

Can you create a named pipe in the home directory of the user who runs the process? Normally the home directory is on a filesystem that supports named pipes, and normally the current user has permissions to create files there. Normally the home directory is written in the environment variable HOME.