In article <4768 at brl-adm.ARPA>, rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> So I propose ioctls to convert the inode of any open file to
> any known type
Rather than an ioctl(), mknod ought to do this when given an existing file.
Don Speck speck at vlsi.caltech.edu {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck