Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:04:41 GMT From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: chris@lf.net, rodrigc@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/99251: can't create symlink named like an existing device on devfs Message-ID: <200606211604.k5LG4fSf077103@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: can't create symlink named like an existing device on devfs State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: rodrigc State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 21 16:02:34 UTC 2006 State-Changed-Why: In FreeBSD 5.x and higher, /dev is a mount point for the devfs filesystem. Entries in /dev are created automatically in the kernel, and are not persisted on disk. What you are trying to do, i.e. delete /dev/mem and symlink it to /dev/null does't make sense. See the man page for devfs(5). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=99251
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