os.mknod() fails on MacOS?
From the OSX manpage https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/mknod.2.html
Mknod() requires super-user privileges.
Works except from the invalid argument
sudo python -c "import os; os.mknod('/tmp/test123')"
Unfortunately mknod
requires escalated privileges. If you don't need mknod
specifically though, just create the file with open
, which doesn't require escalation:
open('/tmp/test123', 'w').close()
If you want to write to the file in addition to creating it:
with open('/tmp/test123', 'w') as file:
file.write('hello world')
Using with
as above will automatically close the file for you.