mknod is the unix syscall to make a special file,
which may be a named pipe, a character device, or a block device.
These are regular file namespace names with special actions
associated with them. The facility of mknod is crucial to the
unix idea that "everything is a file", including device drivers.
The cLIeNUX user-space alias for mknod is
"special", and of course the traditional name is supported.
See
The command
mknod
The syscall
mknod
RIGHTS
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