Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:17:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DEVFS questions. Message-ID: <XFMail.980911151716.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980911101848.694E-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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Alfred Perlstein, On 11-Sep-98 you wrote: > > is there a way to perhaps mount_union over devfs to keep symlinks and > such? > > also, is there a way to preserve permission changes between reboots? > maybe > a script that would do it based on a file... Put in /etc/rc: if [ -f /etc/dev_modes ] then while read line do node=`echo ${line} | cut -d ' ' -f xxxx` mode=`echo ${line} | cut -d ' ' -f yyyy` type=`echo ${line .... if [ ! -e /dev/${node} ] then mknod ${type} ${major} ${minor} /dev/${node} chmod ${mode} /dev/${node} > > libdisk is still broken with DEVFS/SLICE, barfs on: > ioctl: : Inappropriate ioctl for device > failed on IOCTL disk = /dev/rwd0 errno = 25 > > (i added some debugging stuff to the code) > > disklabel is also b0rked, will not write out to the disk. > > (not being sarcastic) i know DEVFS is quite new, but is it expected to > be > used? or is it something akin to kernfs? > > thanks, > Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com > -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. > -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 Simon Shapiro Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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