Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:33:20 -0500 From: "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/24914: /dev explicitly referenced in MAKEDEV Message-ID: <E14QHbs-000KJd-00@twwells.com>
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>Number: 24914 >Category: bin >Synopsis: /dev explicitly referenced in MAKEDEV >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Feb 06 15:40:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: T. William Wells >Release: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: 4.2-STABLE as of 2/5/2001 >Description: I was poking around in /dev/MAKEDEV because I wanted to know if it could safely be used to create device nodes in directories other than /dev. The answer is "almost". A minor nit: pty* references /dev/null so, if one happened to not have a /dev/null, a *file* will get created there. cuaR? and ttyR? both explicitly reference /dev, unlike everything else. Thus attempting to create these elsewhere will fail. >How-To-Repeat: Read the source. :) >Fix: I expect that simply removing the /dev/'s will fix it. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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