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Subject: getting rid of mknod?  (was Re: getting rid of devfs...)
From: "Andrew Lankford" <arlankfo@141.com>
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>You can still make device nodes so that the disk can be exported, 
>but as, in -current the major and minor number will not exist

...Or use softlinks, perhaps?  I can't seem to read mknod(8) disk device
nodes anymore in -current.

Andrew Lankford


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