On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:48:42AM +0100, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: > > The current implementation of mknod(1) uses makedev(3) which apparently > > is not POSIX and does not exist on some systems, such as Haiku. > > Is it possible use other function for it?. The problem is that makedev is > also used in tar.
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? cheers, sin
