On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:19:46AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> It always worked that way, all the way back to Unix v6 (and I'm fairly sure
> to earlier than that; don't have v5 kernel source, unfortunately). Worked
> that way in Linux since 0.02/0.03/0.10, when Linus first added mknod(2)
> (presumably 0.01 had been tested with /dev populated by Minix ;-)
After looking around on the net: in v3 kernel, ken/sys2.c:
mknod()
{
int *ip;
extern uchar;
if(suser()) {
ip = namei(&uchar, 1);
if(ip != NULL) {
u.u_error = EEXIST;
goto out;
}
}
if(u.u_error)
return;
ip = maknode(u.u_arg[1]);
ip->i_addr[0] = u.u_arg[2];
out:
iput(ip);
}
IOW, mknod(path, 0777, 0) will, indeed, create a regular file. Root-only,
back then.
; ls -l ken/sys2.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 al al 3060 Aug 30 1973 ken/sys2.c
v3 manpages don't mention mknod(2) at all; it *is* wired in syscall table
(syscall 14). Section 2 manpages give syscall numbers; what they have for
#14 is makdir (not mentioned by that name in the kernel, described as
creating an empty directory with given pathname and mode sans . and ..
links - i.e. exactly what mknod(2) did all the way to v7 when given
S_IFDIR | something).
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