doesn't open the FIFO --- it just creates the rendezvous point.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{mknod}{path\optional{, mode=0600, device}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{mknod}{filename\optional{, mode=0600, device}}
Create a filesystem node (file, device special file or named pipe)
-named filename. \var{mode} specifies both the permissions to use and
+named \var{filename}. \var{mode} specifies both the permissions to use and
the type of node to be created, being combined (bitwise OR) with one
of S_IFREG, S_IFCHR, S_IFBLK, and S_IFIFO (those constants are
available in \module{stat}). For S_IFCHR and S_IFBLK, \var{device}