Re: mknod fails after wrong arch MAKEDEV

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mknod fails after wrong arch MAKEDEV
\ ppruett (4 May 2008)
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Subject:	Re: mknod fails after wrong arch MAKEDEV
Group:	Openbsd-misc
From:	Paul Pruett
Date:	5 May 2008

> How does it fail?
> Try for example (manually):
>
> mkfifo foo
> mknod foo c 1 1

# cd /
# mknod foo c 1 1
ksh: mknod: foo: Invalid argument

FAILS with invalid argument.

> What *can* be an issue is that mknod inside a chroot is not allowed, as
> well as mknod as non-root (except for pipes, i.e. mknod <path> p, which
> is the same as mkfifo <path>).

agreed,
but I don't think I have / as a chroot,
and I am doing it as root, not su

I fear I some how messed up the userland or some kind of auditing
when I accidently a month ago used the MAKEDEV for a i386, then had to
boot off cdrom to redo /dev