Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:58:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small MAKEDEV bug Message-ID: <20000508115806.C51478@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3915C38B.1E8614AB@vangelderen.org>; from jeroen@vangelderen.org on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:27:07PM -0400 References: <3913D862.960037A1@altavista.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005070543520.8955-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20000507165946.F86113@lucifer.bart.nl> <20000507104224.D35845@dragon.nuxi.com> <3915C38B.1E8614AB@vangelderen.org>
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On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:27:07PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > Or just settle for a more intuitive solution: > MAKEDEV acd2 creates /dev/acd2 > MAKEDEV 2 acd creates /dev/acd[01] > which would allow for "MAKEDEV 64 da" and "MAKEDEV 256 pty" I agree with this syntax and after sending my message to you, was sitting there thinking "MAKEDEV <num_of_devs> <dev_name>" would make a really nice clear syntax. If you can get BDE's buy-in and other BSD traditionalists I think this would be great. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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