From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 12: 6:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F6A37C07A; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19909; Mon, 8 May 2000 21:05:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small MAKEDEV bug In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 11:58:06 PDT." <20000508115806.C51478@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 21:05:58 +0200 Message-ID: <19907.957812758@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 " 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 - 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