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NAME
mknod
- build special file
SYNOPSIS
name
[b | c
]
major minor
[owner : group
]
DESCRIPTION
Bf -symbolic
The
utility is deprecated on modern
Fx systems.
Ef
The
utility creates device special files.
To make nodes manually, the four required arguments are:
name
Device name, for example
``sd''
for a SCSI disk on an HP300 or a
``pty''
for pseudo-terminals.
b | c
Type of device.
If the
device is a block type device such as a tape or disk drive which needs
both cooked and raw special files,
the type is
b
All other devices are character type devices, such as terminal
and pseudo devices, and are type
c
major
The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel
which device driver entry point to use.
To learn what
major device number to use for a particular device, check
/usr/src/sys/conf/majors
minor
The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit
the node corresponds to on the device; for example,
a subunit may be a file system partition
or a tty line.
owner : group
The
ownergroup
operand pair is optional, however, if one is specified, they both must be
specified.
The
owner
may be either a numeric user ID or a user name.
If a user name is also a numeric user ID, the operand is used as a
user name.
The
group
may be either a numeric group ID or a group name.
Similar to the user name,
if a group name is also a numeric group ID, the operand is used as a
group name.
Major and minor device numbers can be given in any format acceptable to
strtoul(3),
so that a leading
`0x'
indicates a hexadecimal number, and a leading
`0'
will cause the number to be interpreted as octal.
The
utility can be used to recreate deleted device nodes under a
devfs(5)
mount point by invoking it using dummy arguments.
Example:
"mknod cd0 c 0 0"
where
``cd0
''
is the name of the deleted device node.
COMPATIBILITY
The
chown(8)Ns-
like functionality is specific to
Fx .
As of
Fx 4.0 ,
block devices were deprecated in favour of character
devices.
As of
Fx 5.0 ,
device nodes are managed by the device file system
devfs(5),
making the
utility superfluous.
As of
Fx 6.0
device nodes may be created in regular file systems but such
nodes cannot be used to access devices.
