From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 17 12: 7: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D9637B406 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com (zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com [47.129.242.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF7043E77 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com) Received: from zrtps0m6.us.nortel.com (zrtps0m6.us.nortel.com [47.140.192.58]) by zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com (Switch-2.2.0/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id g9HJ6pu00989; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com (tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com [47.17.140.84]) by zrtps0m6.us.nortel.com (Switch-2.2.0/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id g9HJ6g223248; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200210171906.g9HJ6g223248@zrtps0m6.us.nortel.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mark Murray , "Robert Withrow" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux compatibility and /dev/null In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert of "Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:55:39 PDT." <3DAF07AB.665A7F7D@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:42 -0400 From: "Robert Withrow" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Robert Withrow, BWithrow@NortelNetworks.com, +1 978 288 8256, ESN 248 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message