Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:37:56 +0600 (ALMT) From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Indra <john@naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101300832480.46219-100000@lion.butya.kz> In-Reply-To: <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. > > What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know > whether the system is running DEVFS or not? I don't see any good reason why this can't be supported. We may talk about 'broken' devices, etc., but while there any - mknod needs to be supported to make transition more smooth. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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