On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 08/03/17 09:57, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > .Xr mknod 2 ,
>
> Should mknod be removed from base or stubbed in light of the more recent
> devfs ?
mknod is used on devfs as a way to 'undelete' devfs node. You may do
rm /dev/node
and then
mknod /dev/node ...
would restore it.
Also, for UFS or other filesystems which are exported by NFS, mknod is
useful to provide device nodes for non-FreeBSD clients.
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