From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 7 12:27:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cypherpunks.ai (cypherpunks.ai [209.88.68.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B3537BB25; Sun, 7 May 2000 12:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from vangelderen.org (intefix.ai [209.88.68.216]) by cypherpunks.ai (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5D151; Sun, 7 May 2000 15:27:19 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: <3915C38B.1E8614AB@vangelderen.org> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 15:27:07 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small MAKEDEV bug References: <3913D862.960037A1@altavista.net> <20000507165946.F86113@lucifer.bart.nl> <20000507104224.D35845@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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