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From: Julian Elischer <julian@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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Subject: Re: ls /devfs: bad-id
To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 02:43:31 +0800 (WST)
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In-Reply-To: <199512271257.NAA00791@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 27, 95 01:57:37 pm
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> first time with the new kernel that now also supports devfs.
> 
> Whenever i do an ``ls /devfs'' (except for the very first time after
> reboot, if i remember well), i get
> 
> bad-id bad-id bad-id bad-id ...
This was defensive programming.. I wanted to see how often this
occured..
that message and the "no references" message can be commented out..

> 

basially it just means that the vnode was reused so I needed to get another..

> on the console.  Should i get nervous about it?
> 
> Why are all the files in /devfs owned by group `games'? ;-)
I was thinking that it might want to be used by such a group of users?
(I was feeling cynical?)

> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>