Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:06:20 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <81000.989568380@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 May 2001 10:35:15 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105101035000.20994-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105101035000.20994-100000@beppo.feral.com>, Matthew Jacob writes: > > >On Thu, 10 May 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Just installed recent -CURRENT on my PC, and noticed strange things: >> >> 1) If I don't have devfs line in /etc/fstab, why DEVFS mount is still >> happening on /dev, and where? > >Somewhat wierdly and unobviously, it's init that does the magic. this is basically because it is one line to do it in /sbin/init, but about 100 to do it in the kernel. Blame the poor design of mount(2) (and ask Adrian when he fixes it :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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