MAKEDEV(8) MachTen Programmer’s Manual MAKEDEV(8)

NAME
MAKEDEV - create system and device special files

SYNOPSIS
MAKEDEV name ...

DESCRIPTION
The shell script MAKEDEV, found in the ‘‘/dev’’ directory,
is used to create the common special files. See spe-
cial(8) for a more complete discussion of special files.

MAKEDEV takes any number of device names as arguments,
where the names are the common abbreviation for the
device. There are two special devices, ‘‘std’’ and
‘‘local’’. The former creates the standard devices for
the architecture. The latter is for devices specific to
the local site, and executes the shell file
‘‘MAKEDEV.local’’.

The Tahoe supports the following devices. Where a device
name is followed by a hash sign (‘‘#’’), the hash sign
must be replaced by a unit number.

std the standard devices (CP, console, drum, fd/*,
klog, kmem, mem, null, remote, stderr, stdin,
stdout, tty, vmem)
local configuration specific devices
cy# Cipher
dk# VDDC or SMDE disk on Versabus
dr# IKON DR-11W
enp# CMC Ethernet interface for loading RAM
hd# VDDC or SMDE disk on VME
ik# IKON DR-11W w/ E&S PS300
mp# MPCC
pty# set of 32 master and slave pseudo terminals
vx# VIOC

FILES
/dev The special file directory.

SEE ALSO
mknod(1), intro(4), config(8), special(8)

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