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.\" @(#)mknod.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
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.Dd December 11, 1993
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.Dt MKNOD 8
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mknod
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.Nd build special file
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm mknod
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.Ar name
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.Op Cm c | Cm b
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.Ar major minor
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm mknod
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command creates device special files.
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Normally the shell script
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.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
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is used to create special files for commonly known devices; it executes
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.Nm mknod
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with the appropriate arguments and can make all the files required for the
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device.
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.Pp
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To make nodes manually, the four required arguments are:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width majorx
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.It Ar name
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Device name, for example
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.Dq sd
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for a SCSI disk on an HP300 or a
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.Dq pty
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for pseudo-devices.
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.It Cm b | Cm c
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Type of device. If the
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device is a block type device such as a tape or disk drive which needs
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both cooked and raw special files,
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the type is
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.Cm b .
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All other devices are character type devices, such as terminal
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and pseudo devices, and are type
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.Cm c .
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.It Ar major
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The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel
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which device driver entry point to use. To learn what
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major device number to use for a particular device, check the file
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.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
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to see if the device is known, or check
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the system dependent device configuration file:
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.Bd -filled -offset indent
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.Dq Pa /usr/src/sys/conf/device. Ns Em architecture
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.Ed
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.Pp
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(for example
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.Pa device.hp300 ) .
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.It Ar minor
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The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit
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the node corresponds to on the device; for example,
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a subunit may be a filesystem partition
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or a tty line.
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.El
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.Pp
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Major and minor device numbers can be given in any format acceptable to
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.Xr strtoul 3 ,
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so that a leading
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.Ql 0x
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indicates a hexadecimal number, and a leading
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.Ql 0
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will cause the number to be interpreted as octal.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mknod 2 ,
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1996-02-05 17:32:16 +00:00
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm
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command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
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