Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:13:28 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c) Message-ID: <16602.989820808@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 May 2001 19:36:09 PDT." <20010513193608.A48014@xor.obsecurity.org>
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In message <20010513193608.A48014@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes: >Actually I was being tongue-in-cheek; I'm not sure how a userland >wrapper for make_dev() would DTRT if you accidentally remove a device >and then want to recreate it. phk's suggestion was making remove only >whiteout the device node, so you can undelete it with rm -W. When you rm(1) a device in DEVFS the dev_t is not destroyed, it is just marked as "not in this mount". -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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