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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)mknod.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt MKNOD 2
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mknod
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.Nd make a special file node
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn mknod "const char *path" "mode_t mode" "dev_t dev"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The filesystem node
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.Fa path
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is created with the file type and access permissions specified in
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.Fa mode .
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The access permissions are modified by the process's umask value.
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.Pp
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If
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.Fa mode
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indicates a block or character special file,
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.Fa dev
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is a configuration dependent specification denoting a particular device
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on the system.
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Otherwise,
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.Fa dev
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is ignored.
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.Pp
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.Fn Mknod
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requires super-user privileges.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Upon successful completion a value of 0 is returned.
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Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Fn Mknod
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will fail and the file will be not created if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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A component of the path prefix does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The process's effective user ID is not super-user.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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The directory in which the entry for the new node is being placed
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cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
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system containing the directory.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
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node is being created.
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.It Bq Er EDQUOT
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The directory in which the entry for the new node
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is being placed cannot be extended because the
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user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
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containing the directory has been exhausted.
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.It Bq Er EDQUOT
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The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
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which the node is being created has been exhausted.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The named file resides on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er EEXIST
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The named file exists.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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.Fa Path
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chmod 2 ,
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.Xr mkfifo 2 ,
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.Xr stat 2 ,
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.Xr umask 2
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Fn mknod
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function call appeared in
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.At v6 .
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