Re: Issue in man page mknod.2

Alejandro Colomar
2025-12-24T15:32:30Z

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Hi Helge,

On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 02:38:21PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Without further ado, the following was found:
>
> Issue: This is the man page of B<mknod>, what is "like B<mknod>()" supposed to refer to? Itself?

The text is in the subsection mknodat(), so it says that mknodat() is
like mknod().

Cheers,
Alex

>
> "If I<path> is relative and I<dirfd> is the special value B<AT_FDCWD>, then "
> "I<path> is interpreted relative to the current working directory of the "
> "calling process (like B<mknod>())."
>

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