Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 07:32:54 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes Message-ID: <20010514073254.J18676@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20846.989849297@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:08:17PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010514094858.70573E-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20846.989849297@critter>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [010514 07:08] wrote: > > I intended to ignore the major and minor arguments in mknod(2), simply > treating it as a request to re-create the named node. It sounds nice, however that's a major POLA violation, no? How about using uprintf in the kernel to spit and curse at the user to use rm -W? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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