From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 22 18:09:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA03286 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 18:09:33 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03279 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 18:09:29 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA27585; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 02:07:37 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511230207.CAA27585@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: iBCS2, socksys and all that jazz... To: langfod@maui.com (David Langford) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 02:07:36 +0000 () Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511222110.LAA11369@ maui.com> from "David Langford" at Nov 22, 95 11:10:49 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 956 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk David Langford stands accused of saying: > >What you do is link socksys to /dev/null > > If this is true and works, then what is it that MAKEDEV is trying do to? > Or why doesnt "MAKEDEV socksys" make soscksys a link to /dev/null? Because originally there was kernel support for /dev/socksys, and that's what MAKEDEV reflects. > | David Langford - Kihei, Maui, Hawaii - langfod@maui.com | I'm happy to say that, despite various bogons in the unwrapper script, the WP60 demo works fine under -current. Thanks for the advice, and kudos to the implementors! -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[