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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:37:56 +0600 (ALMT)
From:      Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Indra <john@naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS newbie...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101300832480.46219-100000@lion.butya.kz>
In-Reply-To: <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:

> > You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there.
> 
> What is the reason for this?  How does a program or script know
> whether the system is running DEVFS or not?

	I don't see any good reason why this can't be supported. We may
talk about 'broken' devices, etc., but while there any - mknod needs to be
supported to make transition more smooth.

--
Boris Popov
http://www.butya.kz/~bp/



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