Date: 22 Nov 1998 17:34:44 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@pagesz.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE Feedback Message-ID: <8667c75mjv.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Randall Hopper's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 1998 13:48:11 -0500" References: <19981122100830.A7061@pagesz.net> <861zmvpqd3.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <19981122131714.A632@pagesz.net> <86ww4no9ng.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <19981122134811.A1167@pagesz.net>
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>>> stealth : /dev # sh MAKEDEV cd1 >> Sorry, I omitted one minor detail. MAKEDEV syntax means that you use >> the number of devices. If you want to create cd0 and cd1's stuff, you >> must MAKEDEV cd2 (ie, 2 devices). > Ok, that works, but it seems odd. And it appears it isn't applied across > the board. For example, when I needed to make my hard drive slice > partitions, I needed to explicitly specify the hard drive, slice, and > partition to get them. For example: You had best look over the source to MAKEDEV (it's just a shell script). If you want to standardize it some, feel free to send in a pr. I suspect that the devfs will be completely working soon (anybody have a status report on that?), so it may not be worthwhile. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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