Questions tagged [mknod]

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What does mknod do?

So the mknod command, what does that do? /dev/random$ mknod -m 666 random c 1 8 I understand that -m specifies permissions, and that mknod overall create an inode in the filesystem which can be a file, directory, device, fifo, etc...but I really…
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