1 /* mknod -- make special files
2 Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
16 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
18 /* Usage: mknod [-m mode] [--mode=mode] path {bcu} major minor
19 make a block or character device node
20 mknod [-m mode] [--mode=mode] path p
21 make a FIFO (named pipe)
24 -m, --mode=mode Set the mode of created nodes to MODE, which is
25 symbolic as in chmod and uses the umask as a point of
28 David MacKenzie <djm@ai.mit.edu> */
33 #include <sys/types.h>
36 #include "modechange.h"
40 /* The name this program was run with. */
43 /* If nonzero, display usage information and exit. */
46 /* If nonzero, print the version on standard output and exit. */
47 static int show_version
;
49 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
51 {"mode", required_argument
, NULL
, 'm'},
52 {"help", no_argument
, &show_help
, 1},
53 {"version", no_argument
, &show_version
, 1},
61 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
65 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... NAME TYPE [MAJOR MINOR]\n"), program_name
);
67 Create the special file NAME of the given TYPE.\n\
69 -m, --mode=MODE set permission mode (as in chmod), not 0666 - umask\n\
70 --help display this help and exit\n\
71 --version output version information and exit\n\
73 MAJOR MINOR are forbidden for TYPE p, mandatory otherwise. TYPE may be:\n\
75 b create a block (buffered) special file\n\
76 c, u create a character (unbuffered) special file \n\
83 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
85 unsigned short newmode
;
86 struct mode_change
*change
;
90 long int tmp_major
, tmp_minor
;
93 program_name
= argv
[0];
94 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
95 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
100 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "m:", longopts
, (int *) 0)) != EOF
)
107 symbolic_mode
= optarg
;
116 printf ("mknod - %s\n", PACKAGE_VERSION
);
123 newmode
= 0666 & ~umask (0);
126 change
= mode_compile (symbolic_mode
, 0);
127 if (change
== MODE_INVALID
)
128 error (1, 0, _("invalid mode"));
129 else if (change
== MODE_MEMORY_EXHAUSTED
)
130 error (1, 0, _("virtual memory exhausted"));
131 newmode
= mode_adjust (newmode
, change
);
134 if (argc
- optind
!= 2 && argc
- optind
!= 4)
137 if (argc
- optind
< 2)
138 msg
= _("too few arguments");
139 else if (argc
- optind
> 4)
140 msg
= _("too many arguments");
142 msg
= _("wrong number of arguments");
147 /* Only check the first character, to allow mnemonic usage like
148 `mknod /dev/rst0 character 18 0'. */
150 switch (argv
[optind
+ 1][0])
152 case 'b': /* `block' or `buffered' */
154 error (4, 0, _("block special files not supported"));
156 if (argc
- optind
!= 4)
159 when creating block special files, major and minor device\n\
160 numbers must be specified"));
164 s
= argv
[optind
+ 2];
165 if (xstrtol (s
, NULL
, 0, &tmp_major
, NULL
) != LONGINT_OK
)
166 error (1, 0, _("invalid major device number `%s'"), s
);
168 s
= argv
[optind
+ 3];
169 if (xstrtol (s
, NULL
, 0, &tmp_minor
, NULL
) != LONGINT_OK
)
170 error (1, 0, _("invalid minor device number `%s'"), s
);
172 i_major
= (int) tmp_major
;
173 i_minor
= (int) tmp_minor
;
175 if (mknod (argv
[optind
], newmode
| S_IFBLK
, makedev (i_major
, i_minor
)))
176 error (1, errno
, "%s", argv
[optind
]);
180 case 'c': /* `character' */
181 case 'u': /* `unbuffered' */
183 error (4, 0, _("character special files not supported"));
185 if (argc
- optind
!= 4)
188 when creating character special files, major and minor device\n\
189 numbers must be specified"));
193 s
= argv
[optind
+ 2];
194 if (xstrtol (s
, NULL
, 0, &tmp_major
, NULL
) != LONGINT_OK
)
195 error (1, 0, _("invalid major device number `%s'"), s
);
197 s
= argv
[optind
+ 3];
198 if (xstrtol (s
, NULL
, 0, &tmp_minor
, NULL
) != LONGINT_OK
)
199 error (1, 0, _("invalid minor device number `%s'"), s
);
201 i_major
= (int) tmp_major
;
202 i_minor
= (int) tmp_minor
;
204 if (mknod (argv
[optind
], newmode
| S_IFCHR
, makedev (i_major
, i_minor
)))
205 error (1, errno
, "%s", argv
[optind
]);
209 case 'p': /* `pipe' */
211 error (4, 0, _("fifo files not supported"));
213 if (argc
- optind
!= 2)
216 major and minor device numbers may not be specified for fifo files"));
219 if (mkfifo (argv
[optind
], newmode
))
220 error (1, errno
, "%s", argv
[optind
]);