makedev(8) [minix man page]

MAKEDEV(8)						      System Manager's Manual							MAKEDEV(8)

NAME

       MAKEDEV, DESCRIBE - make/describe device files

SYNOPSIS

       MAKEDEV [-n] key ...
       DESCRIBE [device] ...

DESCRIPTION

       MAKEDEV may be used to create the device files normally found in the /dev directory.  The key arguments are simply the names of the devices
       you want.  MAKEDEV knows about all supported devices and will create them in the current directory with the proper  owner  and  mode.   For
       many  devices MAKEDEV will not only create the device you want, but also the devices related to it that you will probably want too.  Naming
       one floppy device will create all floppy devices for the same drive for instance.

       Call MAKEDEV without arguments to see a list of keys that it understands.  Then use the -n flag to make the script  echo  the  commands	it
       will execute the next time when you call it without that flag.

       The special key std must be given alone to MAKEDEV.  This key will create all standard devices.

       The command DESCRIBE will give you a one-line description of a given device.  It will by default list all devices in /dev.

SEE ALSO

       mknod(8).

BUGS

       MAKEDEV's eagerness to create devices may cause many "File exists" errors from mknod.

AUTHOR

       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

																	MAKEDEV(8)

MAKEDEV.LOCAL(8)					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					  MAKEDEV.LOCAL(8)

NAME

     MAKEDEV.local -- create site-specific device special files

SYNOPSIS

     MAKEDEV.local [-fMsu] [-m mknod] [-p pax] [-t mtree] {all | site-specific-argument} [...]

DESCRIPTION

     MAKEDEV.local is used to create site-specific device special files.  Each argument may be the word all or a site-specific argument.  By
     default, there are no valid site-specific arguments, and the all argument has no effect; This may be changed by editing the script.

     The script is in /dev/MAKEDEV.local.  Devices are created in the current working directory; in normal use, MAKEDEV.local should be invoked
     with /dev as the current working directory.

     Supported options for MAKEDEV.local are the same as for MAKEDEV(8).

FILES

     /dev		 special device files directory
     /dev/MAKEDEV	 script that invokes MAKEDEV.local with the all argument.
     /dev/MAKEDEV.local  script described in this man page

SEE ALSO

     config(1), intro(4), MAKEDEV(8), mknod(8)

HISTORY

     The MAKEDEV.local command appeared in 4.2BSD.  Handling of the same command line options as MAKEDEV(8), and the use of MAKEDEV(8) as a func-
     tion library, was added in NetBSD 5.0.

NOTES

     The relationship between MAKEDEV.local and MAKEDEV(8) is complex:

     o	 If MAKEDEV(8) is invoked with the all or local argument, then it will invoke MAKEDEV.local as a child process, with options similar to
	 those that were originally passed to MAKEDEV(8), and with the all argument.

     o	 MAKEDEV.local uses shell functions defined in MAKEDEV(8).  This is done by loading MAKEDEV(8) using the shell ``.'' command, with the
	 MAKEDEV_AS_LIBRARY variable set (to inform MAKEDEV(8) that it should behave as a function library, not as an independent program).

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