1Unix::Mknod(3)        User Contributed Perl Documentation       Unix::Mknod(3)
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NAME

6       Unix::Mknod - Perl extension for mknod, major, minor, and makedev
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SYNOPSIS

9        use Unix::Mknod qw(:all);
10        use File::stat;
11        use Fcntl qw(:mode);
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13        $st=stat('/dev/null');
14        $major=major($st->rdev);
15        $minor=minor($st->rdev);
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17        mknod('/tmp/special', S_IFCHR|0600, makedev($major,$minor+1));
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DESCRIPTION

20       This module allows access to the device routines
21       major()/minor()/makedev() that may or may not be macros in .h files.
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23       It also allows access to the mknod(2) system call.
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FUNCTIONS

26       mknod($filename, $mode, $rdev)
27           Creates a block or character device special file named $filename.
28           Must be run as a privileged user, usually root.  Returns 0 on
29           success and -1 on failure, like "POSIX::mkfifo" does.
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31       $major = major($rdev)
32           Returns the major number for the device special file as defined by
33           the st_rdev field from the stat(3) call.
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35       $minor = minor($rdev)
36           Returns the minor number for the device special file as defined by
37           the st_rdev field from the stat(3) call.
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39       $rdev = makedev($major, $minor)
40           Returns the st_rdev number for the device special file from the
41           $major and $minor numbers.
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NOTES

44       There are 2 other perl modules that implement the mknod(2) system call,
45       but they have problems working on some platforms.  "Sys::Mknod" does
46       not work on AIX because it uses the syscall(2) generic system call
47       which AIX does not have.  "Mknod" implements S_IFIFO, which on most
48       platforms is not implemented in mknod(1), but rather mkfifo(1) (which
49       is implemented in POSIX perl module).
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51       The perl module "File::Stat::Bits" also implements major() and minor()
52       (and a version of makedev() called dev_join).  They are done as a
53       program to get the bit masks at compile time, but if major() and
54       minor() are implemented as sub routines, the arugment could be
55       something as simple as an index to a lookup table (and thereby having
56       no decernable relation to its result).
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BUGS

59       Running "make test" as non root will not truly test the functions, as
60       in most UNIX like OSes, mknod(2) needs to be invoked by a privelaged
61       user, usually root.
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SEE ALSO

64       $ERRNO or $! for the specific error message.
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66       File::Stat::Bits, Mknod, POSIX, Sys::Mknod
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68       major(9), minor(9), mkfifo(1), mknod(8)
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70       ftp://ftp-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/Unix-Mknod
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AUTHOR

73       Jim Pirzyk, <pirzyk@uiuc.edu>
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