On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:58:43PM +0100, Paulo da Silva wrote: > How are those "files" of type "socket", whose name > begins with "=", created? How can I create them with > python? they don't start w/ =; that's just ls being verbose. try 'ls -1'. you can create them with os.mkfifo. see lib doc, section 6.1.4.