-fix use of arguments and remove an outdated section
-Xr mkfifo(2) (btw, SUSv3 says that the only portable use of mknod() is to create a FIFO. This is not supported by NetBSD.)
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.\" $NetBSD: mknod.2,v 1.18 2004/05/13 10:20:58 wiz Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: mknod.2,v 1.19 2007/01/18 14:07:01 drochner Exp $
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.\"
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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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.\" @(#)mknod.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dd January 18, 2007
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.Dt MKNOD 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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The device special file
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.Fa path
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is created with the major and minor
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device numbers extracted from
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.Fa mode .
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device numbers specified by
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.Fa dev .
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The access permissions of
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.Fa path
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are descendant from the
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are extracted from
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.Fa mode ,
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modified by the
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.Xr umask 2
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of the parent process.
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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 of a character or block
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I/O device and the superblock of the device.
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If
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.Fa mode
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does not indicate a block special or character special device,
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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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.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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