Mknod itself is scarcely the issue, is it? Device node file system entries are just a way of making contact in user-land (or is it file-system-land?) with "kernel" software entities such as drivers or special file types.
The real issue is getting the implementation of those special kernel software entities.
That certainly goes for a loopback device or named pipes, a random number generator (at least one of which already exists, of course) and so on.
Does Cygwin have a loopback block device? Does it have named pipes?
Randall Schulz
At 13:44 2003-02-24, Robert Citek wrote:
At 01:28 PM 2/24/2003 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Please clarify what use your software makes of mknod. > >Do I guess correctly that what you really want are named pipes?
I don't know about others, but I would use mknod for a loopback block device. Then I could mount images of filesystems, e.g. ISOs, floppies, etc.
Regards, - Robert
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