On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:06 AM, mohit verma <mohit89m...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey guys, > i have a question silly question : > > as we can create the simple files with open,creat and for directories there > is mkdir system calls. > so what is the need of mknod() to create special files and as well as " > ordinary files" ? > why can't we wrap the special file building code in one of open,creat or > mkdir system calls? >
Because they are special files and some of the commands/operations (eg.. truncate) may not be available for them. If you look at the implementation if is kind of a wrapper over regular create. -- Thanks - Manish ================================== [$\*.^ -- I miss being one of them ================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
