From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 16:19:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D6A151F9 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 16:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 0B8C12DC09; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:19:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 52AEE7811; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:15:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509DE10E10; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:15:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:15:31 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > So how about /usr/sbin/chown -> /sbin/chown so that MAKEDEV works with > > just the root file system mounted? > > As one who just got his ass bitten by this, I would vote yes. On a related subject: don't you think it's high time to end up this madness with MAKEDEV being a shell script, and reimplement it in C? Today, MAKEDEV uses about 10 external programs, it's inflexible and complicated, but the task it's doing could be relatively easily ported to C plus config file. Have you ever tried to use it in nonstandad location, or on a minimal system? The end result is usually an unpleasant surprise... Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message