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mknod.2: Refer reader to makedev(3) to build a device ID 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Modified 2003-04-23 by Michael Kerrisk
.\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.\"
.TH MKNOD 2 2007-07-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH MKNOD 2 2008-12-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
mknod \- create a special or ordinary file
.SH SYNOPSIS
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then
.I dev
specifies the major and minor numbers of the newly created device
special file; otherwise it is ignored.
special file
.RB ( makedev (3)
may be useful to build the value for
.IR dev );
otherwise it is ignored.
If
.I pathname
@ -203,5 +207,6 @@ Some of these affect
.BR stat (2),
.BR umask (2),
.BR unlink (2),
.BR makedev (3),
.BR mkfifo (3),
.BR path_resolution (7)