Dan Nicholson writes:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more straigthforward to "test -e || mknod" ?
>
> I definitely considered that, but it seemed more noisy to the code to
> add a conditional for every call. But I'd be fine reworking to that
> approach if that's more acceptable, though.
You can always introduce a `mknod_if_not_exists` function or so. Though
I'm not sure this is worth here (the name is so long the `test -e` is
almost shorter).
Ansgar