Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:02:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes Message-ID: <200105150202.f4F22pF00878@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 17:12:10 PDT." <20010514171210.A66354@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:54:04AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > > * 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?
> >
> > I agree. I think mknod should either do as asked or fail, not do
> > what the developer thinks the user should have asked.
>
> The problem is, how do you know the major/minor number of the device,
> if you haven't installed MAKEDEV (which is about the only reference I
> know of apart from the source)?
You don't care, anymore. The major/minor are all basically obsolete at
this juncture.
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