mknod(1M)                                                  mknod(1M)


       NAME
             mknod - make a special file

       SYNOPSIS
             mknod name b | c major minor
             mknod name p

       DESCRIPTION
             mknod makes a directory entry for a special file.

             name is the special file to be created. The second argument is
             either b, to indicate a block-type special file, or c, to
             indicate a character-type.  The last two arguments are numbers
             specifying the major and minor device numbers; these may be
             either decimal or octal.  The assignment of major device
             numbers is specific to each system.  You must be a privileged
             user to use this form of the command.

             The second case is used to create a FIFO (named pipe).

       NOTICES
             The NFS version 2 protocol does not provide for sending the
             file type to the server as part of an NFS create request. This
             causes mknod to not work for most file types other than
             S_IFREG, S_IFIFO, S_IFCHR, and S_FBLK.

       REFERENCES
             mknod(2)




















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