[Bug 20081] Add ability to simply call the unix function mknod()

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20081

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--- Comment #12 from Matt Lewandowsky   2009-09-19 16:35:36 ---
Your code sounds very Linux-specific; have you tested it on other platforms
Wine runs on? Some of them have notes which indicate that you probably don't
want to use mknod, and others indicate that your syntax isn't correct:

E.g. Solaris:

mknod name b major minor
     mknod name c major minor
     mknod name p
[...]
     With the advent of  physical  device  naming,  it  would  be
     preferable to create a symbolic link to the physical name of
     the device (in  the  /devices  subtree)  rather  than  using
     mknod.

and BSD:

mknod [-F format] name [c | b] major minor
     mknod [-F format] name [c | b] major unit subunit
     mknod name [c | b] number

Also, on these systems, major number 202 may already be in use by something
else; I'm not sure that's what you want. Also, don't some of the /dev
pseudo-filesystem options for Linux effectively defeat mknod when it's used?

With these considerations in mind, I can't see the need for a wine_mknod()
function. Perhaps if you can find an analog in the Windows API, then someone
should figure out the "right" way of doing it. But I don't know of such an
analog.

I concur with the others who are saying you should be writing a winelib app.
I'd add the caveat that you probably want to do a ton of sanity checking, if
you're relying on direct access to system interfaces under Wine.