Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:13:28 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r321920 - head/sys/sys Message-ID: <20170803081328.GL1700@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <f408a8e2-43a7-b4b2-a275-c64e4882382e@selasky.org> References: <201708021014.v72AEHEk061037@repo.freebsd.org> <f7a4a90c-f1d8-b381-27fe-3cf76b574a29@selasky.org> <37abc595-c80e-a8da-04a8-815f42c634de@selasky.org> <20170802135455.GG1700@kib.kiev.ua> <20170803122015.Q1093@besplex.bde.org> <20170803075747.GJ1700@kib.kiev.ua> <f408a8e2-43a7-b4b2-a275-c64e4882382e@selasky.org>
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On 08/03/17 09:57, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > .Xr mknod 2 , > > Should mknod be removed from base or stubbed in light of the more recent > devfs ? mknod is used on devfs as a way to 'undelete' devfs node. You may do rm /dev/node and then mknod /dev/node ... would restore it. Also, for UFS or other filesystems which are exported by NFS, mknod is useful to provide device nodes for non-FreeBSD clients.
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