From 6ee990e0d5fec85a67fc3d015f8c3c5cdb055122 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 17:44:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document that the major and minor numbers are parsed by
 strtoul().

---
 sbin/mknod/mknod.8 | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
index 52ae02dbee4..bbfd073c812 100644
--- a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
+++ b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ a subunit may be a filesystem partition
 or a tty line.
 .El
 .Pp
-Major and minor device numbers can be given using the normal C
-notation, so that a leading
+Major and minor device numbers can be given in any format acceptable to
+.Xr strtoul 3 ,
+so that a leading
 .Ql 0x
 indicates a hexadecimal number, and a leading
 .Ql 0