git: a3b5937da615 - main - mknod.2: properly document root requirements

Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.src
Message-ID <6a67ff8f.3e4cc.271dd2a2__16525.6102498219$1785200545$gmane$org@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
The branch main has been updated by kib:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=a3b5937da6159bcdaf4e635a0ad20013d4c3734d

commit a3b5937da6159bcdaf4e635a0ad20013d4c3734d
Author:     Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: 2026-07-28 01:00:17 +0000
Commit:     Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]>
CommitDate: 2026-07-28 01:01:52 +0000

    mknod.2: properly document root requirements
    
    Submitted by:   Martijn Dekker <[email protected]>
    PR:     297082
    Fixes:  4090d103b0c3 ("mknod.2: update the man page")
    MFC after:      3 days
---
 lib/libsys/mknod.2 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/libsys/mknod.2 b/lib/libsys/mknod.2
index 7dd4985e9cb9..c13b6f1feb6b 100644
--- a/lib/libsys/mknod.2
+++ b/lib/libsys/mknod.2
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ argument is ignored.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn mknod
-system call, when called to create special files,
+system call, unless called to create FIFO,
 requires super-user privileges.
 .Pp
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