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28 .\" @(#)mknod.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
36 .Nd make a special file node
42 .Fn mknod "const char *path" "mode_t mode" "dev_t dev"
46 is created with the file type and access permissions specified in
48 The access permissions are modified by the process's umask value.
52 indicates a block or character special file,
54 is a configuration dependent specification denoting a particular device
63 requires super-user privileges.
70 will fail and the file will be not created if:
73 A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
74 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
75 A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
76 or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
78 A component of the path prefix does not exist.
80 Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
82 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
84 The process's effective user ID is not super-user.
86 An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
88 The directory in which the entry for the new node is being placed
89 cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
90 system containing the directory.
92 There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
93 node is being created.
95 The directory in which the entry for the new node
96 is being placed cannot be extended because the
97 user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
98 containing the directory has been exhausted.
100 The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
101 which the node is being created has been exhausted.
103 The named file resides on a read-only file system.
105 The named file exists.
110 points outside the process's allocated address space.
112 Creating anything else than a block or character special