mknod to create /dev/null equivalent not working

[James E. Pace]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:44 PM, James E. Pace <james at pacehouse.com>
> wrote:
>
>> After "mknod /foo/dev/null c 0 0x1b":
>>
>> $ \ls -l /dev/null /foo/dev/null
>> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  0x1b Aug 28 15:34 /foo/dev/null
>> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  0x1b Aug 28 15:36 /dev/null
>> $ cat /etc/hosts > /dev/null
>> $ cat /etc/hosts > /foo/dev/null
>> /foo/dev/null: Operation not supported.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?  Why isn't the device I created acting like
>> /dev/null?
>>
>> Tried on FreeBSD 11.1.
>>
>
> You must have missed the big header in the mknod man page.   I think you
> may want devfs(5) instead.
>
>
Hey, look at that... "The mknod utility is deprecated on modern FreeBSD
systems."

Thanks,

James