From 53eeabdef0d1e26bb83391717c617287b9727bc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:31:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mknod.2: Post-merge reworking of text Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/mknod.2 | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/mknod.2 b/man2/mknod.2 index 77d1fd203..8f715f43b 100644 --- a/man2/mknod.2 +++ b/man2/mknod.2 @@ -269,14 +269,18 @@ 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. +Under Linux, +.BR mknod () +cannot be used to create directories. One should make directories with .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 -.BR mknod (). +.BR mknod () +and +.BR mknodat (2). .SH SEE ALSO .BR chmod (2), .BR chown (2),