Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:42 -0400 From: "Robert Withrow" <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Robert Withrow" <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux compatibility and /dev/null Message-ID: <200210171906.g9HJ6g223248@zrtps0m6.us.nortel.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> of "Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:55:39 PDT." <3DAF07AB.665A7F7D@mindspring.com>
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tlambert2@mindspring.com said:
:- Why not just remove it?
I re-installed linux_base and that *did* remove it. And, as Terry
suggests, acroread works fine without it. In fact there is no
/compat/linux/dev directory at all after the reinstall.
I don't have a clue how that file got created in the first place, except
to guess that it is a side effect of installing some port.
Also, Kris points out that the Makefile for the linux_base port has
this in the do-install section
# Make sure we have a /dev/null in the chrooted environment.
@${MKDIR} ${LINUXBASE}/dev
@${RM} -f ${LINUXBASE}/dev/null
@mknod ${LINUXBASE}/dev/null c 2 2
@${CHMOD} 666 ${LINUXBASE}/dev/null
But, as I said above, there is no /compat/linux/dev after the install,
so you can color me confused.
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Robert Withrow, BWithrow@NortelNetworks.com, +1 978 288 8256, ESN 248
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