Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:03:39 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: usermount with devfs Message-ID: <7014.1033664619@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:59:24 PDT." <3D9C776C.1000409@isi.edu>
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In message <3D9C776C.1000409@isi.edu>, Lars Eggert writes: >[root@nik: /etc] rm /dev/acd0c >[root@nik: /etc] umask 0007 && ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/acd0 >ln: /dev/acd0: File exists > >Which is really a strange error, since /dev/acd0c is gone: Nothing which the kernel has created in /dev/ is really gone when you rm(1) it, it merely gets hidden. Think of it as "the kernel has priority in selecting names". Now, if you had rm /dev/null you could recreate it with mknod /dev/null c 0 0 (the "c 0 0" arguments have to be there, but are ignored). I guess it's a flaw that you can't recreate the symlink in a similar fashion. noted. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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