Chapter 14 MKNOD

Technical documentation

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Operation

The MKNOD utility lets you create device link files, streams files, and fifo files.

The security restrictions enforced with MKNOD are as follows:

To create a streams file, you must have either SM or NM capability.
To create a device link file, you must have SM capability.
To create a fifo device file, you must CD access to the directory in which you're creating the file.

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