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-.\" @(#)mknod.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
-.\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
-.Dt MKNOD 2
-.Os BSD 4
-.Sh NAME
-.Nm mknod
-.Nd make a special file node
-.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Fd #include <unistd.h>
-.Ft int
-.Fn mknod "const char *path" "mode_t mode" "dev_t dev"
-.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The filesystem node
-.Fa path
-is created with the file type and access permissions specified in
-.Fa mode .
-The access permissions are modified by the process's umask value.
-.Pp
-If
-.Fa mode
-indicates a block or character special file,
-.Fa dev
-is a configuration dependent specification denoting a particular device
-on the system.
-Otherwise,
-.Fa dev
-is ignored.
-.Pp
-.Fn Mknod
-requires super-user privileges.
-.Sh RETURN VALUES
-Upon successful completion a value of 0 is returned.
-Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
-.Va errno
-is set to indicate the error.
-.Sh ERRORS
-.Fn Mknod
-will fail and the file will be not created if:
-.Bl -tag -width Er
-.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
-A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
-.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
-A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
-or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
-.It Bq Er ENOENT
-A component of the path prefix does not exist.
-.It Bq Er EACCES
-Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
-.It Bq Er ELOOP
-Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
-.It Bq Er EPERM
-The process's effective user ID is not super-user.
-.It Bq Er EPERM
-The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
-.It Bq Er EIO
-An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
-.It Bq Er ENOSPC
-The directory in which the entry for the new node is being placed
-cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
-system containing the directory.
-.It Bq Er ENOSPC
-There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
-node is being created.
-.It Bq Er EDQUOT
-The directory in which the entry for the new node
-is being placed cannot be extended because the
-user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
-containing the directory has been exhausted.
-.It Bq Er EDQUOT
-The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
-which the node is being created has been exhausted.
-.It Bq Er EROFS
-The named file resides on a read-only file system.
-.It Bq Er EEXIST
-The named file exists.
-.It Bq Er EFAULT
-.Fa Path
-points outside the process's allocated address space.
-.El
-.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr chmod 2 ,
-.Xr mkfifo 2 ,
-.Xr stat 2 ,
-.Xr umask 2
-.Sh HISTORY
-A
-.Fn mknod
-function call appeared in
-.At v6 .
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