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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:13:28 +0300
From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, src-committers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r321920 - head/sys/sys
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 08/03/17 09:57, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> >   .Xr mknod 2 ,
> 
> Should mknod be removed from base or stubbed in light of the more recent 
> devfs ?

mknod is used on devfs as a way to 'undelete' devfs node.  You may do
	rm /dev/node
and then
	mknod /dev/node ...
would restore it.

Also, for UFS or other filesystems which are exported by NFS, mknod is
useful to provide device nodes for non-FreeBSD clients.