From: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:29:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: man/man2/mknod.2: HISTORY: Change order of mknodat(2)
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man/man2/mknod.2: HISTORY: Change order of mknodat(2)

glibc 2.4 released on 2006-03-06.[1]  Linux 2.6.16 released on
2006-03-20.[2]  So chronologically list glibc before Linux.

POSIX.1-2008 released in 2008, adding mkdirat(2) as an XSI extension.[3]
glibc added mknodat(2) on 2005-12-03.[4]  So chronologically list glibc
(and Linux) before POSIX.

[1] McGrath, Roland (6 Mar 2006).  "GNU C Library version 2.4 release".
info-gnu (Mailing list).
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2006-03/msg00000.html>
[2] Linux Kernel Distribution System (20 Mar 2006).  "Linux kernel
2.6.16 released".  linux-kernel-announce (Mailing list).
<https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-announce/200603200635.k2K6ZOsn003502@hera.kernel.org>
[3] IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, Volume 2, Chapter 3 "System Interfaces", pp.
1298-1301.
<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2008edition/functions/mknod.html>
[4] Drepper, Ulrich (3 Dec 2005).  "* io/Makefile (routines): Add
mknodat, xmknodat, mkdirat, mkfifoat."  GNU C Library master sources
(Git repository).
<https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=e186c703dc073b8be95d0bf893bb8ebb127fe02b>

Signed-off-by: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
Message-ID: <d3da8260e1bcd6e80b24729c805aa4f4b1497a48.1769429341.git.sethmcmail@pm.me>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/man/man2/mknod.2 b/man/man2/mknod.2
index 8368dc304..4ae25132d 100644
--- a/man/man2/mknod.2
+++ b/man/man2/mknod.2
@@ -275,9 +275,9 @@ SVr4, 4.4BSD, POSIX.1-2001 (but see VERSIONS).
 .\" EMULTIHOP, ENOLINK, or EINTR error is documented.
 .TP
 .BR mknodat ()
+glibc 2.4,
 Linux 2.6.16,
-glibc 2.4.
-POSIX.1-2008.
+POSIX.1-2008 XSI.
 .SH NOTES
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