Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 15:27:07 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small MAKEDEV bug Message-ID: <3915C38B.1E8614AB@vangelderen.org> 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>
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[CC culled, -stable removed] David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 04:59:46PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > Can we settle this once and for all in a slightly sane manner? > > > > I committed the change so that MAKEDEV acd1 creates acd1 and not just > > acd0. > > This is wrong. ``MAKEDEV acd2'' should either create only /dev/acd2*, or > /dev/acd[01]*. > > It would be nice to fix our inconsistency problem. Looking at the > 4.4Lite vendor import to find the BSD way would be a good start. 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" > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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