From 3920c8caf67531d451649b6427c78ad2b96f536b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:04:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify use of mkfifo() versus mknod(). as per
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455825

---
 man2/mknod.2 | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/mknod.2 b/man2/mknod.2
index 0b0505beb..88a26b6af 100644
--- a/man2/mknod.2
+++ b/man2/mknod.2
@@ -175,13 +175,16 @@ or
 is not 0, the behavior of
 .BR mknod ()
 is unspecified."
+However, nowadays one should never use
+.BR mknod ()
+for this purpose; one should use
+.BR mkfifo (3),
+a function especially defined for this purpose.
 
 Under Linux, this call cannot be used to create directories.
 One should make directories with
-.BR mkdir (2),
-and FIFOs with
-.BR mkfifo (3).
-.\" Unix domain sockets with .BR socket " (and " bind ),
+.BR mkdir (2).
+.\" and one should make Unix domain sockets with socket(2) and bind(2).
 
 There are many infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS.
 Some of these affect