From 98370595619170317553259ee369d70c9c7717b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ed <ed@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:48:25 +0000
Subject: Allow mknod(8) to be only invoked with a pathname as an argument.

In 99% of the cases people just want to recreate device nodes they
removed from /dev. There is no reason to pass the additional "c 0 0"
anymore.

Also slightly improve the manpage. Remove references to non-existent
device names and platforms.
---
 sbin/mknod/mknod.8 | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'sbin/mknod/mknod.8')

diff --git a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
index 9de2804..22efbd1 100644
--- a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
+++ b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)mknod.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd October 31, 2009
+.Dd January 31, 2010
 .Dt MKNOD 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm
 .Ar name
+.Nm
+.Ar name
 .Op Cm b | c
 .Ar major minor
 .Op Ar owner : Ns Ar group
@@ -52,14 +54,14 @@ systems.
 The
 .Nm
 utility creates device special files.
-To make nodes manually, the four required arguments are:
+To make nodes manually, the arguments are:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Ar name
 Device name, for example
-.Dq sd
-for a SCSI disk on an HP300 or a
-.Dq pty
+.Pa /dev/da0
+for a SCSI disk or
+.Pa /dev/pts/0
 for pseudo-terminals.
 .It Cm b | c
 Type of device.
@@ -110,13 +112,13 @@ The
 .Nm
 utility can be used to recreate deleted device nodes under a
 .Xr devfs 5
-mount point by invoking it using dummy arguments.
+mount point by invoking it with only a filename as an argument.
 Example:
 .Pp
-.Dl "mknod cd0 c 0 0"
+.Dl "mknod /dev/cd0"
 .Pp
 where
-.Dq Li cd0
+.Pa /dev/cd0
 is the name of the deleted device node.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 The
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