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		gwu78 on April 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the name? mknod: "nowadays of extremely limited usefulness" Interesting perspective. I use it almost daily. The syscall as well as the provided utility of same name.

antientropic on April 5, 2015 [–]

I have to ask: what do you do that you need to create device nodes manually on a daily basis?

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