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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]
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