Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:05:50 +0400 From: Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with devfs Message-ID: <42DE13EE.2070506@speechpro.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20050720005813.shmach@osprey.net> References: <XFMail.20050720005813.shmach@osprey.net>
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shmach@osprey.net wrote: >Hello everyone, > >I'm a CS student, and this previous semester I took a unix class where our >teacher gave us some code for an assignment, with the goal being to compile and >install it. The jist of it was the program created a device in /dev called >voice, which would "speak" whatever was written to it using festival. I >thought this was kinda spiffy, and tried to install it on my system at home, >freebsd 5.3. The program tries to write to /dev, and because 5.3 >uses devfs, /dev is read only, so it obviously fails. I thought that maybe using >mknod would allow me to create a device, but the man page for mknod states that >it can "be used to recreate deleted device nodes under a devfs(5) mount point by >invoking it using dummy arguments", but that doesn't really help me here as the >device node never existed in the first place. > > You can make device node or fifo not in /dev but in any other directory (for example in /tmp) and change path in your file.
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