From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 21 16:52:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13876 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@[208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13827 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:51:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-124.camalott.com [208.229.74.124]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA22663; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:51:49 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14507; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:50:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:50:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199807212350.SAA14507@detlev.UUCP> To: brian@Awfulhak.org CC: julian@whistle.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, bright@hotjobs.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199807212325.AAA28587@awfulhak.org> (message from Brian Somers on Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:25:18 +0100) Subject: Re: vn subsystem From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199807212325.AAA28587@awfulhak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Indeed. DEVFS + SLICE = make release breakage. > I tried a quick local hack to > mount -t devfs devfs /dev || { cd /dev; sh ./MAKEDEV std; } > (or similar), but it didn't work first time and I hadn't the time to > try again. The problem was probably that I was already in a chrooted > environment at that point and mounts are global.... so I was trying > to mount /dev when it was already mounted and wasn't going near the > chrooted area at all.... I could be mistaken, but doesn't DEVFS not list vn devices to begin with? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message