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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:02:58AM +0000, Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> After upgrading a 6-CURRENT machine from a 5 day old kernel to one cvsupe=
d=20
> just a few hours ago, special files zero and null created through mknod n=
o=20
> longer works.
>=20
> # mknod zerotest c 2 12
> # chmod 666 zerotest
> # cat zerotest > /dev/null
> cat: zerotest: Socket operation on non-socket
>=20
> Could this be related to the vfs stuff Poul-Henning Kamp is working with?

I'm pretty sure this is by design - see phk's commits and related
discussion.  Use devfs for device nodes.

Kris
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