> Quoting from the POSIX page on mknod(2).
>
> "The only portable use of mknod() is to create a FIFO-special file. If
> mode is not S_IFIFO or dev is not 0, the behavior of mknod() is unspecified."
>
> So I suspect not. Any ideas?
Uhmm, it looks bad. If we want to be 100% POSIX complaint then we have to move
mknod to ubase, and change the mknod system call of tar (and next archivers that
could be implemented in sbase) to a system("mknod ...").
Other point is to think what is the number of system where makedev is not
supported, because maybe the list is really small.
Regards,
--
Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
