Re: Issue in man page mknod.2
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-12-24 15:32:30
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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-12-24 15:32:30
Hi Helge, On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 02:38:21PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Without further ado, the following was found: Issue: This is the man page of B<mknod>, what is "like B<mknod>()" supposed to refer to? Itself?
The text is in the subsection mknodat(), so it says that mknodat() is like mknod(). Cheers, Alex
"If I<path> is relative and I<dirfd> is the special value B<AT_FDCWD>, then " "I<path> is interpreted relative to the current working directory of the " "calling process (like B<mknod>())."
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