Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 09:58:15 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple cd devices (MAKEDEV) Message-ID: <61158.946749495@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:34:24 %2B0100." <20000101003424.A52465@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Everything that sysinstall does WRT devs is abstracted by libdisk. > On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:15:02PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've > > > > > never encountered that kind of syntax before, and I can't see that it 's > > > > > documented anywhere at all. Certainly, MAKEDEV itself (in it's > > > > > comments) treats cd* just like all the others, specifying that the nu mber > > > > > following is a unit number, and *not* a quantity. I don't know when this > > > > > happened, but it's surely not obvious. Not one word in the handbook, > > > > > either. > > > > > > > > *shrug* This is the only rationality I could think of. Obviously, thi s > > > > breaks POLA, so it should be changed (with ample warning). > > > > > > As for ample warning: I've seen MAKEDEVs display a list of the devices > > > they are creating. I think the Tru64 version does this. I myself think th is > > > is a good behaviour (and hope people won't start yelling 'bloat' for once ) > > > > I'd like to hack about a bit on MAKEDEV, but I was wondering, does > > sysinstall, in any way, use MAKEDEV? I *don't* want to mess with > > sysinstall! > > :) I guess the only way to find out short of studying sysinstall source code > is asking Jordan. > > -- > Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project > WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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