From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 29 18:38:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2D237B69D; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:38:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by relay.butya.kz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 520A0286FB; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:37:57 +0600 (ALMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.butya.kz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283DF28679; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:37:57 +0600 (ALMT) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:37:56 +0600 (ALMT) From: Boris Popov To: Greg Lehey Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Steve Ames , John Baldwin , John Indra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... In-Reply-To: <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message