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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:16:02 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?) 
Message-ID:  <75038.997852562@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:30:56 %2B1000." <20010815113056.H854@zeus.theinternet.com.au> 

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In message <20010815113056.H854@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, Andrew Kenneth Milton
 writes:
>+-------[ Greg Lehey ]----------------------
>|
>
>[snip]
>
>| whether it's been fixed.  Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had
>| a 16 character limit on device names, and it didn't understand
>| subdirectories: it treated the / as a part of the device name. 
>
>The subdir part bit me about a week ago, so I'd say it's still not fixed.

This is absolutely news to me.  I'm pretty sure that you will find
that /dev/fd[012] exists on your system and that it was created using
'/' in make_dev calls...

More details on this bug are most welcome.

I'm working on the 16char limit problem as well, but I want to avoid
allocating memory in incovenient circumstances if at all possible.

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