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In the MAKEDEV.local(8) man page, document more detail about the (now complex) relationship between MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV.local.
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.\" $NetBSD: MAKEDEV.local.8,v 1.3 2007/03/03 06:53:41 apb Exp $
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.Dd March 2, 2007
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.Dt MAKEDEV.LOCAL 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm MAKEDEV.local
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.Nd create site-specific device special files
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl fs
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.Op Fl m Ar mknod
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.Bro Pa all | site-specific-argument Brc Op Ar ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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is used to create site-specific device special files.
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Each argument may be the word
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.Pa all
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or a site-specific argument.
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By default, there are no valid site-specific arguments,
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and the
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.Pa all
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argument has no effect;
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This may be changed by editing the script.
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.Pp
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The script is in
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.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV.local
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and must be called from the
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.Pa /dev
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directory.
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.Pp
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Supported options for
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.Nm
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are the same as for
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8 ,
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as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width XmXmknodXX
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.It Fl f
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Force permissions to be updated on existing devices.
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.It Fl m Ar mknod
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Name of
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.Xr mknod 8
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program.
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[Usually, $TOOL_MKNOD or mknod.]
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.It Fl s
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Generate
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.Xr mtree 8
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specfile instead of creating devices.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width "/dev/MAKEDEV.local" -compact
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.It Pa /dev
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special device files directory
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.It Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
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script that invokes
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.Nm
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with the
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.Pa all
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argument.
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.It Pa /dev/MAKEDEV.local
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script described in this man page
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr config 1 ,
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.Xr intro 4 ,
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8 ,
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.Xr mknod 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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Handling of the same command line options as
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8 ,
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and the use of
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8
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as a function library, was added in
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.Nx 5.0 .
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.Sh NOTES
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The relationship between
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.Nm
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and
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8
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is complex:
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.Bl -bullet
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.It
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If
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8
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is invoked with the
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.Pa all
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or
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.Pa local
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argument, then it will invoke
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.Nm
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as a child process, with the same options that were originally passed to
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8 ,
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as well as the
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.Pa all
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argument.
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.It
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.Nm
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uses shell functions defined in
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8 .
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This is done by loading
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8
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using the shell
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.Dq \&.
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command, with the
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.Ev MAKEDEV_AS_LIBRARY
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variable set (to inform
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.Xr MAKEDEV 8
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that it should behave as a function library,
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not as an independent program).
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.El
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