Dan Nicholson writes: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > <h...@debian.org> wrote: >> Wouldn't it be more straigthforward to "test -e || mknod" ? > > I definitely considered that, but it seemed more noisy to the code to > add a conditional for every call. But I'd be fine reworking to that > approach if that's more acceptable, though.
You can always introduce a `mknod_if_not_exists` function or so. Though I'm not sure this is worth here (the name is so long the `test -e` is almost shorter). Ansgar
