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- utility. Nodes are created by the mknod system call. The command-line program for creating nodes is also called mknod. Nodes can be moved or deleted by...
- has reached the end of the file. It is a device file (it can be made with mknod for instance), but does not reference any hardware. DOS-, Windows- and OS/2-like...
- makes use of the filesystem. It is explicitly created using mkfifo() or mknod(), and two separate processes can access the pipe by name — one process...
- kernel did not have an mkdir syscall. Instead, it made the directory with mknod and linked in the . and .. directory entries manually. The command is available...
- communicate between them. Named pipes may also be created using mkfifo() or mknod() and then presented as the input or output file to programs as they are...
- dynamically by the facilities of the device file system (udev), or directly with mknod. The management user interface for the loop device is losetup, which is...
- a directory mkdir Creates a directory mkfifo Makes named pipes (FIFOs) mknod Makes block or character special files mktemp Creates a temporary file or...
- utilities that are useful in early user space: cpio, dash, fstype, mkdir, mknod, mount, nfsmount, run-init, etc. all using the klibc library. An alternate...
- fileutils: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, dd, df, dir, du, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, etc. textutils: cat, cksum, head, tail, md5sum, nl, od, pr, tsort...
- usually support those same permissions, but also includes controls for mknod, binding to network sockets, implicit use of POSIX capabilities, loading...