Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:43:00 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, dima@rdy.com, ache@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <98966.971430180@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Oct 2000 11:04:32 %2B0200." <xzp66mxnmcf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzp66mxnmcf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >[resent due to Cc: fuckup] > >Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> writes: >> IMHO, the fix was what was needed given the current internals of >> savecore(8). Do you see it differently? > >Yes - savecore(8) or devname(3) needs to be fixed so that /etc/rc >doesn't need to be broken like this. savecore(8) is often run manually >in single-user mode and should not depend on dev_mkdb(8); I think it's >a bug in devname(3) that it does (devname(3) should use dev.db as a >fallback in case the sysctl doesn't work, rather than the reverse). The reason I implemented it thusly is because people without DEVFS might rename things, and in that case devname(3) should DTRT. IMO, the mistake is trying to open what devname(3) returns. -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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