Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 21:05:58 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small MAKEDEV bug Message-ID: <19907.957812758@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 11:58:06 PDT." <20000508115806.C51478@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20000508115806.C51478@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >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. Make it MAKEDEV -<num_of_devs> <dev_name> and there will be no ambiguity. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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