mknod device numbers

Tom I Helbekkmo tih at Hamartun.Priv.NO
Thu Nov 16 01:35:23 AEST 1995


On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Bob Manners wrote:

> v5 and v6 UNIX seem to have very few device files in /dev as
> distributed. Inparticular, I need to set up the device entries for my
> RK05 drives, /dev/rk0 and /dev/rrk0 etc.

This works for me, with v6:

# chdir /dev
# ls -l
total 0
crw--w--w-  2 root    0,  0 Nov  7 21:14 console
crw-rw-r--  1 bin     8,  1 May 14  1975 kmem
crw-rw-r--  1 bin     8,  0 May 14  1975 mem
crw-rw-rw-  1 bin     8,  2 May 14  1975 null
brw-rw-rw-  1 root    0,  0 Oct 10  1975 rk0
brw-rw-rw-  1 root    0,  1 Oct 10  1975 rk1
brw-rw-rw-  1 root    0,  2 Oct 10  1975 rk2
brw-rw-rw-  1 root    0,  3 Oct 10  1975 rk3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root    9,  0 Nov  7 01:19 rrk0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root    9,  1 Nov  7 01:19 rrk1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root    9,  2 Nov  7 01:19 rrk2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root    9,  3 Nov  7 01:19 rrk3
crw--w--w-  2 root    0,  0 Nov  7 21:14 tty8

Protection could be better, of course.  :-)

-tih
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Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
tih at Hamartun.Priv.NO



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