From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 11:57:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C67337BB70; Mon, 8 May 2000 11:57:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@c01-132.006.popsite.net [216.126.134.132]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22205; Mon, 8 May 2000 11:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA51807; Mon, 8 May 2000 11:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:58:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small MAKEDEV bug Message-ID: <20000508115806.C51478@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3913D862.960037A1@altavista.net> <20000507165946.F86113@lucifer.bart.nl> <20000507104224.D35845@dragon.nuxi.com> <3915C38B.1E8614AB@vangelderen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3915C38B.1E8614AB@vangelderen.org>; from jeroen@vangelderen.org on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:27:07PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 " 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