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mknod - make block or character special files
Návod, kniha: General Commands Manual
mknod [options] name {bc} major minor
mknod [options] name p
GNU options (shortest form):
[-m mode] [--help] [--version]
[--]
mknod creates a FIFO (named pipe), character special file, or block
special file with the specified
name.
A special file is a triple (boolean, integer, integer) stored in the filesystem.
The boolean chooses between character special file and block special file. The
two integers are the major and minor device number.
Thus, a special file takes almost no place on disk, and is used only for
communication with the operating system, not for data storage. Often special
files refer to hardware devices (disk, tape, tty, printer) or to operating
system services (/dev/null, /dev/random).
Block special files usually are disk-like devices (where data can be accessed
given a block number, and e.g. it is meaningful to have a block cache). All
other devices are character special files. (Long ago the distinction was a
different one: I/O to a character special file would be unbuffered, to a block
special file buffered.)
The
mknod command is what creates files of this type.
The argument following
name specifies the type of file to make:
- p
- for a FIFO
- b
- for a block (buffered) special file
- c
- for a character (unbuffered) special file
The GNU version of
mknod allows
u (`unbuffered') as a synonym for
c.
When making a block or character special file, the major and minor device
numbers must be given after the file type (in decimal, or in octal with
leading 0; the GNU version also allows hexadecimal with leading 0x). By
default, the mode of created files is 0666 (`a+rw') minus the bits set in the
umask.
- -m mode, --mode=mode
- Set the mode of created files to mode, which can be
symbolic as in chmod(1) and then uses the default mode as the point
of departure.
- --help
- Print a usage message on standard output and exit
successfully.
- --version
- Print version information on standard output, then exit
successfully.
- --
- Terminate option list.
POSIX does not describe this command as it is nonportable, and recommends using
mkfifo(1) to make FIFOs. SVID has a command
/etc/mknod with the
above syntax, but without the mode option.
On a Linux system (version 1.3.22 or newer) the file
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.tex contains a list of devices
with device name, type, major and minor number.
The present page describes
mknod as found in the fileutils-4.0 package;
other versions may differ slightly.
chmod(1),
mkfifo(1),
mknod(2)
