Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:20:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser) Cc: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos), obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile Message-ID: <199912152020.MAA23494@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <19991215183526.C70129@florence.pavilion.net> from Josef Karthauser at "Dec 15, 1999 06:35:26 pm"
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> On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 05:49:51PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >
> > This sounds like a promissing idea, read and parse a text file that describes
> > device nodes. Kinda act like mtree(8) only for device nodes.
>
> Interesting... maybe mtree should be collared to do the work. Why can't it
> make device nodes?
Because it doesn't have a major/minor keyword, though that should not
be too hard to fix. It does know about all the device file types:
block block special device
char character special device
dir directory
fifo fifo
file regular file
link symbolic link
socket socket
Just no way to specify what major/minor that I can see. Oh wait, isn't
that encoded in the inode size field for a block/char device, so I suppose
you could use size=0xblahblah.
Also mtree is a /usr/sbin program.... and _very_ BSD specific.
--
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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