/* Create a device inode. Copyright (C) 2009-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* written by Eric Blake */ #include #include #include #include #if !HAVE_MKNOD /* Mingw lacks mknod; always fail with ENOSYS. */ int mknod (_GL_UNUSED char const *name, _GL_UNUSED mode_t mode, _GL_UNUSED dev_t dev) { errno = ENOSYS; return -1; } #else /* HAVE_MKNOD */ # undef mknod /* Create a file system node FILE, with access permissions and file type in MODE, and device type in DEV. Usually, non-root applications can only create named fifos (mode includes S_IFIFO), with DEV set to 0. Also work around trailing slash bugs. */ int rpl_mknod (char const *name, mode_t mode, dev_t dev) { # if MKFIFO_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG /* Trailing slash only makes sense for directories. Of course, using mknod to create a directory is not very portable, so it may still fail later on. */ if (!S_ISDIR (mode)) { size_t len = strlen (name); if (len && name[len - 1] == '/') { struct stat st; if (stat (name, &st) == 0 || errno == EOVERFLOW) errno = EEXIST; return -1; } } # endif # if MKNOD_FIFO_BUG /* POSIX requires mknod to create fifos for non-privileged processes, but BSD implementations fail with EPERM. */ if (S_ISFIFO (mode) && dev == 0) return mkfifo (name, mode & ~S_IFIFO); # endif return mknod (name, mode, dev); } #endif /* HAVE_MKNOD */