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Date:      Sun, 13 May 2001 19:36:09 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c)
Message-ID:  <20010513193608.A48014@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010513185724.A53412@FreeBSD.org>; from eric@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:57:24PM -0700
References:  <20010513141237.A63235@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010514074016.N86168@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513151500.A27277@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010514075417.A88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513152842.A28203@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010513181354.A46193@FreeBSD.org> <20010514105122.G88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513182649.A51972@FreeBSD.org> <20010514111119.I88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513185724.A53412@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:57:24PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote:
> > > At first I was going to add this in to rm(1), but I thought people wo=
uld
> > > object to that. Apparently I got it backwards, I'll do as you
> > > suggest.
> >=20
> > I think you should wait for phk's comments before committing.
>=20
> I never intended to commit anything just yet, I was just taking kris's
> thoughts a step further and spitting out some code. I suppose this probab=
ly
> the wrong list for it; I was just lazy and left the discussion on the list
> that it began on.

Actually I was being tongue-in-cheek; I'm not sure how a userland
wrapper for make_dev() would DTRT if you accidentally remove a device
and then want to recreate it.  phk's suggestion was making remove only
whiteout the device node, so you can undelete it with rm -W.

Kris

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