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Date:      Sat, 03 Feb 2001 21:28:32 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS newbie... 
Message-ID:  <15139.981232112@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 2001 13:21:26 MST." <200102032021.f13KLQ962051@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <200102032021.f13KLQ962051@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <14918.981230622@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>: Doing straight symlinks would not work.
>
>OK.
>
>The other idea that I had was a cpdev.  It would be like a templated
>mknod.  It would stat the first argument and do a mknod with the
>st_rdev from the stat, eg:

It's really very simple, if I get my way, this will be possible:

	# rm /dev/null
	# echo 'OOPS!'
	# rm -W /dev/null
	# ls -l /dev/null
	crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    2,   2  3 Feb 21:25 /dev/null
	# mount -t devfs devfs /home/jail/dev
	# cd /home/jail/dev
	# rm -f *
	# rm -W null zero tty console
	# ls -l
	crw-------  1 phk   wheel    0,   0  2 Feb 01:09 console
	drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel         0  2 Feb 01:06 fd
	crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    2,   2  3 Feb 21:25 null
	crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    1,   0  3 Feb 17:27 tty
	crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    2,  12  1 Jan  1970 zero
	#
	
>P.S.  I do hope someone will tell me if this is becoming too
>bikeshedish.

It is :-)

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