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author | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-26 06:35:07 +0000 |
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committer | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-26 06:35:07 +0000 |
commit | d038e02fd667ab6c02875840105798aaa7029504 (patch) | |
tree | b555a2b228429d62f4946ae1a7e68c33012e1b03 /sbin/mknod/mknod.8 | |
parent | e3cfc8ce61f788739c66445d903f8beacb40c93d (diff) | |
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diff --git a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73f71d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)mknod.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 +.\" +.Dd December 11, 1993 +.Dt MKNOD 8 +.Os BSD 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm mknod +.Nd build special file +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm mknod +.Ar name +.Op Cm c | Cm b +.Ar major minor +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm mknod +command creates device special files. +Normally the shell script +.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV +is used to create special files for commonly known devices; it executes +.Nm mknod +with the appropriate arguments and can make all the files required for the +device. +.Pp +To make nodes manually, the four required arguments are: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width majorx +.It Ar name +Device name, for example +.Dq sd +for a SCSI disk on an HP300 or a +.Dq pty +for pseudo-devices. +.It Cm b | Cm 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 +.Cm b . +All other devices are character type devices, such as terminal +and pseudo devices, and are type +.Cm c . +.It Ar 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 the file +.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV +to see if the device is known, or check +the system dependent device configuration file: +.Bd -filled -offset indent +.Dq Pa /usr/src/sys/conf/device. Ns Em architecture +.Ed +.Pp +(for example +.Pa device.hp300 ) . +.It Ar minor +The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit +the node corresponds to on the device; for example, +a subunit may be a filesystem partition +or a tty line. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mknod 2 , +.Xr makedev 8 +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. |