Thanks, didn't mean it as a GNU thing at all. Sure, mkdir would've existed
back in research Unix too. My experience has only been limited to the Linux
envs, which is why I was led to attribute mkdir to the evolution in
mknod(), I only know that they all either descended down from SysV or BSD,
those who have used the real Unices would know better. Seeing as I haven't
had the privilege of using any except briefly on an emulator.

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 5:30 PM Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen@firemail.de>
wrote:

>
> > Also, I only now realized that only mknod existed, up until a long time,
> >
> > only later on with the GNU coreutils did mkdir as a command come into
> > existence. Running the PDP-11 v7 on SIMH showed that, gotten so
> accustomed
> >
> > to the Linux env that thinking backwards seemed suddenly arcane.
> >
> that's not true. mkdir isn't a GNU invention. Its much older.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkdir#History
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mknod.2.html
>
>
>

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