David Holland <dholland-t...@netbsd.org> writes: > However, I notice that mknod(2) does not describe how to set the > object type with the type bits of the mode argument, or document which > object types are allowed, and mkfifo(2) also does not say whether > S_IFIFO should be set in the mode argument or not.
This is documented quite well in the opengroup.org standards pages (or in S_IFIFO, and just don't set any special bits, respectively). Agreed that fixing the man pages would be good. > (Though mkfifo(2) hints not by not documenting EINVAL for "The > supplied mode is invalid", this sort of inference is annoying even in > standards and really not ok for docs...) https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mknod.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mkfifo.html#tag_16_327 Those seem clear to me.
