Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 20:04:37 -0700 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c) Message-ID: <20010513200437.A55992@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010513193608.A48014@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 07:36:09PM -0700 References: <20010514074016.N86168@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513151500.A27277@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010514075417.A88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513152842.A28203@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010513181354.A46193@FreeBSD.org> <20010514105122.G88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513182649.A51972@FreeBSD.org> <20010514111119.I88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513185724.A53412@FreeBSD.org> <20010513193608.A48014@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> Actually I was being tongue-in-cheek; I'm not sure how a userland > wrapper for make_dev() would DTRT if you accidentally remove a device > and then want to recreate it. phk's suggestion was making remove only > whiteout the device node, so you can undelete it with rm -W. I didn't even think about that for some reason. Oh well, I probably could have spent my time doing worse things, and I learned a little in the slightly embarrassing process :P To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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