1998-10-24 Roland McGrath <roland@baalperazim.frob.com>
[glibc.git] / sysdeps / unix / xmknod.c
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1 /* xmknod call using old-style Unix mknod system call.
2 Copyright (C) 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
7 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
8 License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
17 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
18 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
20 #include <errno.h>
21 #include <sys/types.h>
22 #include <sys/stat.h>
24 extern int __syscall_mknod (const char *, mode_t, dev_t);
26 /* Create a device file named PATH, with permission and special bits MODE
27 and device number DEV (which can be constructed from major and minor
28 device numbers with the `makedev' macro above). */
29 int
30 __xmknod (int vers, const char *path, mode_t mode, dev_t *dev)
32 if (vers != _MKNOD_VER)
34 __set_errno (EINVAL);
35 return -1;
38 return __syscall_mknod (path, mode, *dev);
41 weak_alias (__xmknod, _xmknod)