Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:22:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Indra <john@naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Message-ID: <20010130132238.H48490@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101300832480.46219-100000@lion.butya.kz>; from bp@butya.kz on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:37:56AM %2B0600 References: <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101300832480.46219-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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On Tuesday, 30 January 2001 at 8:37:56 +0600, Boris Popov wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. >> >> What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know >> whether the system is running DEVFS or not? > > I don't see any good reason why this can't be supported. We may > talk about 'broken' devices, etc., but while there any - mknod needs to be > supported to make transition more smooth. I'm assuming that there's a good technical reason for the lack of mknod. It also seems that mkdir doesn't work in devfs. Let's give phk time to wake up and tell us. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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