Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:00:11 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs persistence Message-ID: <34E9DE3B.284797A9@whistle.com> References: <XFMail.980216193841.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > The only thing not clear to me (I know this is obvious), is; With an all > DEVFS, can I still do ``mkdir -p /a/b/c/d;cd /a/b/c/d;mknod foo c 123 456, > or its equivalent? If not, then symbolic links are fine too. you cannot mknod. only the drivers can make nodes. (though there are ways to solve some problems you might normally try use mknod for) > > Oh, a /dev DEVFS mounted, can it create links and/or symlinks? > Why not? The user can use ln (with or without -s) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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