Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:02:21 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: cm c <beatlelittle@yahoo.com.cn> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I do "mknod /dev/cdev c 32 0" Message-ID: <20041202030221.GA9994@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041202024210.50483.qmail@web15311.mail.bjs.yahoo.com> References: <41AE7C93.2010707@cogeco.ca> <20041202024210.50483.qmail@web15311.mail.bjs.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:42:10AM +0800, cm c wrote:
> The output of 'uname -a' is:
> FreeBSD .itc.inventec 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 =
02:55:42 GMT 2003 root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERI=
C i386
> =20
> It's 5.x, but if the node is created automatically, how do I use
> open? I mean, under linux, user space processes need do
> 'open("/dev/cdev") before do other things, can /dev/cdev be created
> automatically? I don't think so.
Yes, it can, if the driver supports that.
You should update to 5.3 though, becuase you're probably hitting a bug
that was fixed ages ago.
Also, please wrap your lines at 70 characters so that your emails may
be easily read.
Kris
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