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Dd April  1, 2020
Dt MAKEDEV 8
Os
Sh NAME
Nm MAKEDEV
Nd create system and device special files
Sh SYNOPSIS
\" Please keep this in sync with MAKEDEV.local.8
Nm
Op Fl fMsu
Op Fl m Ar mknod
Op Fl p Ar pax
Op Fl t Ar mtree
Bro Ar special | device Brc Op Ar ...
Sh DESCRIPTION
Nm
is used to create system and device special files.
As arguments it takes the names of known devices, like
Ar sd0 ,
or of special targets, like
Pa all
or
Pa std ,
which create a collection of device special files,
or
Pa local ,
which invokes
Xr MAKEDEV.local 8
with the
Pa all
argument.
Pp
The script is in
Pa /dev/MAKEDEV .
Devices are created in the current working directory;
in normal use,
Nm
should be invoked with
Pa /dev
as the current working directory.
Pp
Supported options are:
Bl -tag -width XmXmknodXX
It Fl f
Force permissions to be updated on existing devices.
This works only if
Nm
invokes
Xr mknod 8 ;
it is not compatible with the
Fl p ,
Fl s ,
or
Fl t
options.
It Fl M
Create a memory file system, union mounted over the current directory,
to contain the device special files.
The memory file system is created using
Xr mount_tmpfs 8
or
Xr mount_mfs 8 ,
in that order of preference.
Pp
If the
Fl M
flag is specified more than once, then
Nm
assumes that it is being invoked from
Xr init 8
to populate a memory file system for
Pa /dev .
In this case,
Nm
will also redirect its output to the system console.
It Fl m Ar mknod
Force the use of
Xr mknod 8 ,
and specify the name or path to the
Xr mknod 8
program.
[Usually, $TOOL_MKNOD or mknod.]
It Fl p Ar pax
Force the use of
Xr pax 1 ,
and specify the name or path to the
Xr pax 1
program.
[Usually, $TOOL_PAX or pax.]
It Fl s
Generate an
Xr mtree 8
specfile instead of creating devices.
It Fl t Ar mtree
Force the use of
Xr mtree 8 ,
and specify the name or path to the
Xr mtree 8
program.
[Usually, $TOOL_MTREE or mtree.]
It Fl u
Don't re-create devices that already exist.
El
Pp
Nm
has several possible methods of creating device nodes:
Bl -bullet
It
By invoking the
Xr mknod 8
command once for each device node.
This is the traditional method, but it is slow because each device node
is created using a new process.
Pp
The
Fl m
option forces
Nm
to use the
Xr mknod 8
method.
It
By internally creating a specfile in a format usable by
Xr mtree 8 ,
and providing the specfile on standard input to a
Xr pax 1
or
Xr mtree 8
command, invoked with options that request it to create the device nodes
as well as any necessary subdirectories.
This is much faster than creating device nodes with
Xr mknod 8 ,
because it requires much fewer processes;
however, it's not compatible with the
Fl f
option.
Pp
The
Fl p
or
Fl t
options force
Nm
to use the
Xr pax 1
or
Xr mtree 8
methods.
It
If the
Fl s
option is specified, then
Nm
will not create device nodes at all, but will output
a specfile in a format usable by
Xr mtree 8 .
El
Pp
The
Fl m , Fl p , Fl s ,
and
Fl t
flags are mutually exclusive.
If none of these flags is specified, then
Nm
will use
Xr mtree 8 ,
Xr pax 1 ,
or
Xr mknod 8 ,
in that order of preference, depending on which commands
appear to be available and usable.
In normal use, it's expected that
Xr mtree 8
will be available, so it will be chosen.
If
Nm
is invoked by
Xr init 8 ,
it's expected that
Xr mtree 8
will not be available, but
Xr pax 1
may be available.
Pp
The special targets supported on
Nx
are:
Pp
\" @@@SPECIAL@@@
Bl -tag -width 01234567 -compact
It Ar all
Makes all known devices, including local devices. Tries to make the 'standard' number of each type.
It Ar init
A set of devices that is used for MFS /dev by init. May be equal to ``all''.
It Ar floppy
Devices to be put on install floppies
It Ar ramdisk
Devices to be put into INSTALL kernel ramdisks.
It Ar std
Standard devices
It Ar local
Configuration specific devices
It Ar lua
Lua device
It Ar wscons
Make wscons devices
It Ar usbs
Make USB devices
El
Pp
Please note that any hash marks
Pq Dq #
in the following list of supported device targets must be replaced by
digits when calling
Nm :
Pp
\" @@@DEVICES@@@
Bl -tag -width 01
It Tapes :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar st#
SCSI tapes, see
Xr \&st 4
It Ar wt#
QIC-interfaced (e.g. not SCSI) 3M cartridge tape, see
Xr \&wt 4
It Ar ht#
MASSBUS TM03 and TU??, see
Xr \&vax/ht 4
It Ar mt#
MSCP tapes (e.g. TU81, TK50), see
Xr \&vax/mt 4
It Ar tm#
UNIBUS TM11 and TE10 emulations (e.g. Emulex TC-11), see
Xr \&vax/tm 4
It Ar ts#
UNIBUS TS11, see
Xr \&vax/ts 4
It Ar ut#
UNIBUS TU45 emulations (e.g. si 9700), see
Xr \&vax/ut 4
It Ar uu#
TU58 cassettes on DL11 controller, see
Xr \&vax/uu 4
El
It Disks :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar dk#
Wedge disk slices, see
Xr \&dk 4
It Ar ccd#
Concatenated disk devices, see
Xr \&ccd 4
It Ar cd#
SCSI or ATAPI CD-ROM, see
Xr \&cd 4
It Ar cgd#
Cryptographic disk devices, see
Xr \&cgd 4
It Ar raid#
RAIDframe disk devices, see
Xr \&raid 4
It Ar sd#
SCSI disks, see
Xr \&sd 4
It Ar wd#
``winchester'' disk drives (ST506,IDE,ESDI,RLL,...), see
Xr \&wd 4
It Ar bmd#
Nereid bank memory disks, see
Xr \&x68k/bmd 4
It Ar ed#
IBM PS/2 ESDI disk devices, see
Xr \&edc 4
It Ar fd#
``floppy'' disk drives (3 1/2", 5 1/4"), see
Xr \&amiga/fdc 4 ,
Xr \&sparc64/fdc 4 ,
Xr \&x86/fdc 4
It Ar fss#
Files system snapshot devices, see
Xr \&fss 4
It Ar gdrom#
Dreamcast ``gigadisc'' CD-ROM drive, see
Xr \&dreamcast/gdrom 4
It Ar hk#
UNIBUS RK06 and RK07, see
Xr \&vax/hk 4
It Ar hp#
MASSBUS RM??, see
Xr \&vax/hp 4
It Ar ld#
Logical disk devices (e.g., hardware RAID), see
Xr \&ld 4
It Ar mcd#
Mitsumi CD-ROM, see
Xr \&mcd 4
It Ar md#
Memory pseudo-disk devices, see
Xr \&md 4
It Ar ofdisk#
OpenFirmware disk devices
It Ar ra#
MSCP disks (RA??, RD??)
It Ar rb#
730 IDC w/ RB80 and/or RB02
It Ar rd#
HDC9224 RD disks on VS2000, see
Xr \&hp300/rd 4
It Ar rl#
UNIBUS RL02, see
Xr \&vax/rl 4
It Ar rx#
MSCP floppy disk (RX33/50/...)
It Ar up#
Other UNIBUS devices (e.g. on Emulex SC-21V controller), see
Xr \&vax/up 4
It Ar vnd#
``file'' pseudo-disks, see
Xr \&vnd 4
It Ar xbd#
Xen virtual disks, see
Xr \&xbd 4
It Ar xd#
Xylogic 753/7053 disks, see
Xr \&sparc/xd 4
It Ar xy#
Xylogic 450/451 disks, see
Xr \&sparc/xy 4
El
It Pointing devices :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar wsmouse#
wscons mouse events, see
Xr \&wsmouse 4
It Ar lms#
Logitech bus mouse, see
Xr \&i386/lms 4
It Ar mms#
Microsoft bus mouse, see
Xr \&dreamcast/mms 4 ,
Xr \&i386/mms 4
It Ar qms#
``quadrature mouse'', see
Xr \&acorn32/qms 4
It Ar pms#
PS/2 mouse
It Ar mouse
Mouse (provides events, for X11)
El
It Keyboard devices :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar wskbd#
wscons keyboard events, see
Xr \&wskbd 4
It Ar kbd
Raw keyboard (provides events, for X11), see
Xr \&sparc/kbd 4 ,
Xr \&sun2/kbd 4 ,
Xr \&sun3/kbd 4
It Ar kbdctl
Keyboard control
El
It Terminals/Console ports :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar tty[01]#
Standard serial ports, see
Xr \&tty 4
It Ar tty0#
SB1250 (``sbscn'') serial ports (sbmips), see
Xr \&tty 4
It Ar ttyE#
wscons - Workstation console (``wscons'') glass-tty emulators
It Ar ttyCZ?
Cyclades-Z multiport serial boards. Each ``unit'' makes 64 ports., see
Xr \&cz 4
It Ar ttyCY?
Cyclom-Y multiport serial boards. Each ``unit'' makes 32 ports., see
Xr \&cy 4
It Ar ttye#
ITE bitmapped consoles, see
Xr \&amiga/ite 4
It Ar ttyv0
pccons
It Ar ttyC?
NS16550 (``com'') serial ports
It Ar ttyS#
SA1110 serial port (hpcarm)
It Ar ttyTX?
TX39 internal serial ports (hpcmips)
It Ar ttyB?
DEC 3000 ZS8530 (``scc'') serial ports (alpha)
It Ar ttyA#
Mfc serial ports (amiga)
It Ar ttyB#
Msc serial ports (amiga)
It Ar ttyC#
Com style serial ports (DraCo, HyperCom) (amiga) On the DraCo, units 0 and 1 are the built-in ``modem'' and ``mouse'' ports, if configured.
It Ar ttyA0
8530 Channel A (formerly ser02) (atari)
It Ar ttyA1
8530 Channel B (formerly mdm02) (atari)
It Ar ttyB0
UART on first 68901 (formerly mdm01) (atari)
It Ar ixpcom
IXP12x0 COM ports
It Ar epcom
EP93xx COM ports
It Ar plcom
ARM PL01[01] serial ports
It Ar wmcom
EPOC Windermere COM ports
It Ar ttyM?
HP200/300 4 port serial mux interface (hp300)
It Ar ttya
``ttya'' system console (luna68k)
It Ar ttyb
Second system serial port (luna68k)
It Ar tty#
Onboard serial ports (mvme68k) On the mvme147 these are: ttyZ1, ttyZ2 and ttyZ3. On the mvme167, and '177: ttyC1, ttyC2 and ttyC3. Note that tty[CZ]0 is grabbed by the console device so is not created by default, see
Xr \&tty 4
It Ar dc#
PMAX 4 channel serial interface (kbd, mouse, modem, printer)
It Ar scc#
82530 serial interface (pmax)
It Ar ttyZ#
Zilog 8530 (``zstty'') serial ports, see
Xr \&zstty 4
It Ar tty[abcd]
Built-in serial ports (sparc)
It Ar tty#
Z88530 serial controllers (sparc64), see
Xr \&tty 4
It Ar ttyh#
SAB82532 serial controllers (sparc64), see
Xr \&sparc64/sab 4
It Ar tty[a-j]
Built-in serial ports (sun2, sun3)
It Ar ttyC?
pccons (arc)
It Ar dz#
UNIBUS DZ11 and DZ32 (vax), see
Xr \&emips/dz 4 ,
Xr \&vax/dz 4
It Ar dh#
UNIBUS DH11 and emulations (e.g. Able DMAX, Emulex CS-11) (vax), see
Xr \&vax/dh 4
It Ar dmf#
UNIBUS DMF32 (vax), see
Xr \&vax/dmf 4
It Ar dhu#
UNIBUS DHU11 (vax), see
Xr \&vax/dhu 4
It Ar dmz#
UNIBUS DMZ32 (vax), see
Xr \&vax/dmz 4
It Ar dl#
UNIBUS DL11 (vax), see
Xr \&vax/dl 4
It Ar xencons
Xen virtual console
El
It Terminal multiplexors :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar dc#
4 channel serial interface (keyboard, mouse, modem, printer)
It Ar dh#
UNIBUS DH11 and emulations (e.g. Able DMAX, Emulex CS-11), see
Xr \&vax/dh 4
It Ar dhu#
UNIBUS DHU11, see
Xr \&vax/dhu 4
It Ar dl#
UNIBUS DL11, see
Xr \&vax/dl 4
It Ar dmf#
UNIBUS DMF32, see
Xr \&vax/dmf 4
It Ar dmz#
UNIBUS DMZ32, see
Xr \&vax/dmz 4
It Ar dz#
UNIBUS DZ11 and DZ32, see
Xr \&emips/dz 4 ,
Xr \&vax/dz 4
It Ar scc#
82530 serial interface
El
It Call units :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar dn#
UNIBUS DN11 and emulations (e.g. Able Quadracall), see
Xr \&vax/dn 4
El
It Pseudo terminals :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar ptm
Pty multiplexor device, and pts directory, see
Xr \&ptm 4
It Ar pty#
Set of 16 master and slave pseudo terminals, see
Xr \&pty 4
It Ar opty
First 16 ptys, to save inodes on install media
It Ar ipty
First 2 ptys, for install media use only
El
It Printers :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar arcpp#
Archimedes parallel port
It Ar lpt#
Stock lp, see
Xr \&lpt 4 ,
Xr \&acorn32/lpt 4 ,
Xr \&mvme68k/lpt 4 ,
Xr \&x86/lpt 4
It Ar lpa#
Interruptless lp
It Ar par#
Amiga motherboard parallel port
It Ar cpi#
Macintosh Nubus CSI parallel printer card, see
Xr \&mac68k/cpi 4
El
It USB devices :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar usb#
USB control devices, see
Xr \&usb 4
It Ar uhid#
USB generic HID devices, see
Xr \&uhid 4
It Ar ulpt#
USB printer devices, see
Xr \&ulpt 4
It Ar ugen#
USB generic devices, see
Xr \&ugen 4
It Ar uscanner#
USB scanners, see
Xr \&uscanner 4
It Ar ttyHS#
USB Option N.V. modems
It Ar ttyU#
USB modems, see
Xr \&ucom 4
It Ar ttyY#
USB serial adapters
El
It Video devices :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar bwtwo#
Monochromatic frame buffer, see
Xr \&sparc/bwtwo 4 ,
Xr \&sun2/bwtwo 4 ,
Xr \&sun3/bwtwo 4
It Ar cgtwo#
8-bit color frame buffer, see
Xr \&sparc/cgtwo 4 ,
Xr \&sun3/cgtwo 4
It Ar cgthree#
8-bit color frame buffer, see
Xr \&sparc/cgthree 4
It Ar cgfour#
8-bit color frame buffer, see
Xr \&sparc/cgfour 4 ,
Xr \&sun3/cgfour 4
It Ar cgsix#
Accelerated 8-bit color frame buffer, see
Xr \&sparc/cgsix 4
It Ar cgeight#
24-bit color frame buffer, see
Xr \&sparc/cgeight 4
It Ar etvme
Tseng et-compatible cards on VME (atari)
It Ar ik#
UNIBUS interface to Ikonas frame buffer, see
Xr \&vax/ik 4
It Ar leo
Circad Leonardo VME-bus true color (atari)
It Ar ps#
UNIBUS interface to Picture System 2, see
Xr \&vax/ps 4
It Ar qv#
QVSS (MicroVAX) display
It Ar tcx#
Accelerated 8/24-bit color frame buffer, see
Xr \&sparc/tcx 4
El
It Maple bus devices :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar maple
Maple bus control devices, see
Xr \&dreamcast/maple 4
It Ar mlcd#
Maple bus LCD devices, see
Xr \&dreamcast/mlcd 4
It Ar mmem#
Maple bus storage devices, see
Xr \&dreamcast/mmem 4
El
It IEEE1394 bus devices :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar fw#
IEEE1394 bus generic node access devices
It Ar fwmem#
IEEE1394 bus physical memory of the remote node access devices
El
It Special purpose devices :
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar ad#
UNIBUS interface to Data Translation A/D converter, see
Xr \&vax/ad 4
It Ar agp#
AGP GART devices, see
Xr \&agp 4
It Ar altq
ALTQ control interface, see
Xr \&altq 4
It Ar amr#
AMI MegaRaid control device, see
Xr \&amr 4
It Ar apm
Power management device, see
Xr \&i386/apm 4
It Ar audio#
Audio devices, see
Xr \&audio 4
It Ar bell#
OPM bell device (x68k)
It Ar bktr
Brooktree 848/849/878/879 based TV cards, see
Xr \&bktr 4
It Ar bpf
Packet filter, see
Xr \&bpf 4
It Ar bthub
Bluetooth Device Hub control interface, see
Xr \&bthub 4
It Ar cfs#
Coda file system device
It Ar ch#
SCSI media changer, see
Xr \&ch 4
It Ar cir#
Consumer IR, see
Xr \&cir 4
It Ar clockctl
Clock control for non root users, see
Xr \&clockctl 4
It Ar cpuctl
CPU control
It Ar crypto
Hardware crypto access driver, see
Xr \&crypto 4
It Ar dmoverio
Hardware-assisted data movers, see
Xr \&dmoverio 4
It Ar dpt#
DPT/Adaptec EATA RAID management interface, see
Xr \&dpt 4
It Ar dpti#
DPT/Adaptec I2O RAID management interface, see
Xr \&dpti 4
It Ar drm#
Direct Rendering Manager interface, see
Xr \&drm 4
It Ar dtv#
Digital TV interface, see
Xr \&dtv 4
It Ar fb#
PMAX generic framebuffer pseudo-device
It Ar fd
File descriptors
It Ar gpiopps#
1PPS signals on GPIO pins, see
Xr \&gpiopps 4
It Ar grf#
Graphics frame buffer device, see
Xr \&amiga/grf 4
It Ar hdaudio#
High Definition audio control device, see
Xr \&hdaudio 4
It Ar hdmicec#
HDMI CEC devices
It Ar hil
HP300 HIL input devices, see
Xr \&hil 4
It Ar icp
ICP-Vortex/Intel RAID control interface, see
Xr \&icp 4
It Ar iic#
IIC bus device, see
Xr \&iic 4
It Ar io
X86 IOPL access for COMPAT_10, COMPAT_FREEBSD, see
Xr \&hppa/io 4 ,
Xr \&i386/io 4
It Ar iop#
I2O IOP control interface, see
Xr \&iop 4
It Ar ipmi#
OpenIPMI compatible interface, see
Xr \&ipmi 4
It Ar ipl
IP Filter
It Ar irframe#
IrDA physical frame, see
Xr \&irframe 4
It Ar ite#
Terminal emulator interface to HP300 graphics devices, see
Xr \&amiga/ite 4
It Ar joy#
Joystick device, see
Xr \&joy 4
It Ar kttcp
Kernel ttcp helper device, see
Xr \&kttcp 4
It Ar lockstat
Kernel locking statistics
It Ar magma#
Magma multiport serial/parallel cards, see
Xr \&sparc/magma 4
It Ar midi#
MIDI, see
Xr \&midi 4
It Ar mfi#
LSI MegaRAID/MegaSAS control interface, see
Xr \&mfi 4
It Ar mlx#
Mylex DAC960 control interface, see
Xr \&mlx 4
It Ar mly#
Mylex AcceleRAID/eXtremeRAID control interface, see
Xr \&mly 4
It Ar np#
UNIBUS Ethernet co-processor interface, for downloading., see
Xr \&vax/np 4
It Ar npf
NPF packet filter
It Ar nsmb#
SMB requester, see
Xr \&nsmb 4
It Ar nvme#
Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface device driver, see
Xr \&nvme 4
It Ar nvme#ns*
Non-Volatile Memory namespace
It Ar nvmm
NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor, see
Xr \&nvmm 4
It Ar openfirm
OpenFirmware accessor
It Ar pad#
Pseudo-audio device driver, see
Xr \&pad 4
It Ar pci#
PCI bus access devices, see
Xr \&pci 4
It Ar pf
PF packet filter
It Ar putter
Pass-to-Userspace Transporter
It Ar px#
PixelStamp Xserver access, see
Xr \&px 4
It Ar qemufwcfg#
QEMU Firmware Configuration, see
Xr \&qemufwcfg 4
It Ar radio#
Radio devices, see
Xr \&radio 4
It Ar random
Random number generator, see
Xr \&rnd 4
It Ar rtc#
RealTimeClock, see
Xr \&atari/rtc 4 ,
Xr \&evbppc/rtc 4 ,
Xr \&hp300/rtc 4
It Ar scsibus#
SCSI busses, see
Xr \&scsi 4
It Ar se#
SCSI Ethernet, see
Xr \&se 4
It Ar ses#
SES/SAF-TE SCSI Devices, see
Xr \&ses 4
It Ar speaker
PC speaker, see
Xr \&speaker 4
It Ar spi#
SPI bus device, see
Xr \&spi 4
It Ar sram
Battery backuped memory (x68k)
It Ar srt#
Source-address based routing, see
Xr \&srt 4
It Ar ss#
SCSI scanner, see
Xr \&ss 4
It Ar stic#
PixelStamp interface chip
It Ar sysmon
System Monitoring hardware, see
Xr \&envsys 4
It Ar tap#
Virtual Ethernet device, see
Xr \&tap 4
It Ar tprof
Task profiler, see
Xr \&tprof 4
It Ar tun#
Network tunnel driver, see
Xr \&tun 4
It Ar twa
3ware Apache control interface, see
Xr \&twa 4
It Ar twe
3ware Escalade control interface, see
Xr \&twe 4
It Ar uk#
Unknown SCSI device, see
Xr \&uk 4
It Ar veriexec
Veriexec fingerprint loader, see
Xr \&veriexec 4
It Ar vhci
Virtual host controller interface
It Ar video#
Video capture devices, see
Xr \&video 4
It Ar view#
Generic interface to graphic displays (Amiga)
It Ar wsfont#
Console font control, see
Xr \&wsfont 4
It Ar wsmux#
wscons event multiplexor, see
Xr \&wsmux 4
It Ar xenevt
Xen event interface
El
It iSCSI communication devices
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar iscsi#
ISCSI driver and /sbin/iscsid communication
El
It Trusted Computing devices
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar tpm
Trusted Platform Module, see
Xr \&tpm 4
El
It Debugging and tracing
Bl -tag -width 0123456789 -compact
It Ar dtrace
Dynamic tracing framework
El
El
Sh ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of
Nm :
Pp
Bl -tag -width indent
It Ev MAKEDEV_AS_LIBRARY
If this is set, then
Nm
will define several shell functions and then return,
ignoring all its command line options and arguments.
This is used to enable
Xr MAKEDEV.local 8
to use the shell functions defined in
Nm .
El
Sh FILES
Bl -tag -width "/dev/MAKEDEV.local" -compact
It Pa /dev
special device files directory
It Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
script described in this man page
It Pa /dev/MAKEDEV.local
script for site-specific devices
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Sh DIAGNOSTICS
If the script reports an error that is difficult to understand,
you can get more debugging output by using
Dl Ic sh Fl x Ar MAKEDEV Ar argument .
Sh SEE ALSO
Xr config 1 ,
Xr pax 1 ,
Xr intro 4 ,
Xr diskless 8 ,
Xr init 8 ,
Xr MAKEDEV.local 8 ,
Xr mknod 8 ,
Xr mount_mfs 8 ,
Xr mount_tmpfs 8 ,
Xr mtree 8
Sh HISTORY
The
Nm
command appeared in
Bx 4.2 .
The
Fl f ,
Fl m ,
and
Fl s
options were added in
Nx 2.0 .
The
Fl p ,
Fl t ,
and
Fl M
options were added in
Nx 5.0 .
The ability to be used as a function library was added in
Nx 5.0 .
Sh BUGS
The
Fl f
option is not compatible with the use of
Xr mtree 8
or
Xr pax 1 .
Sh NOTES
Not all devices listed in this manpage are supported on all platforms.
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This man page is generated automatically from the same sources
as
Pa /dev/MAKEDEV ,
in which the device files are not always sorted, which may result
in an unusual (non-alphabetical) order.
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In order to allow a diskless
Nx
client to obtain its
Pa /dev
directory from a file server running a foreign operating system,
one of the following techniques may be useful to populate
a directory of device nodes on the foreign server:
Bl -bullet
It
If the foreign server is sufficiently similar to
Nx ,
run
Nm
in an appropriate directory of the foreign server,
using the
Fl m
flag to refer to a script that converts from command line
arguments that would be usable with the
Nx
Xr mknod 8
command to the equivalent commands for the foreign server.
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Run
Nm
with the
Fl s
flag to generate an
Xr mtree 8
specification file; this can be done on any host with a
POSIX-compliant shell and a few widely-available utilities.
Use the
Xr pax 1
command with the
Fl w Fl M
flags to convert the
Xr mtree 8
specification file into an archive
in a format that supports device nodes
(such as
Ar ustar
format);
this can be done on a
Nx
host, or can be done in a cross-build environment using
Sy TOOLDIR Ns Pa /bin/nbpax .
Finally, use appropriate tools on the foreign server
to unpack the archive and create the device nodes.
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