Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:17:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DEVFS questions. Message-ID: <XFMail.980911151716.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980911101848.694E-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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Alfred Perlstein, On 11-Sep-98 you wrote:
>
> is there a way to perhaps mount_union over devfs to keep symlinks and
> such?
>
> also, is there a way to preserve permission changes between reboots?
> maybe
> a script that would do it based on a file...
Put in /etc/rc:
if [ -f /etc/dev_modes ]
then
while read line
do
node=`echo ${line} | cut -d ' ' -f xxxx`
mode=`echo ${line} | cut -d ' ' -f yyyy`
type=`echo ${line ....
if [ ! -e /dev/${node} ]
then
mknod ${type} ${major} ${minor} /dev/${node}
chmod ${mode} /dev/${node}
>
> libdisk is still broken with DEVFS/SLICE, barfs on:
> ioctl: : Inappropriate ioctl for device
> failed on IOCTL disk = /dev/rwd0 errno = 25
>
> (i added some debugging stuff to the code)
>
> disklabel is also b0rked, will not write out to the disk.
>
> (not being sarcastic) i know DEVFS is quite new, but is it expected to
> be
> used? or is it something akin to kernfs?
>
> thanks,
> Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
> -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
> -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current
>
>
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Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
770.265.7340
Simon Shapiro
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