From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 3 16:56:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5B037B408; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from murray@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f83Nq6P14441; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:52:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Message-Id: <200109032352.f83Nq6P14441@freefall.freebsd.org> To: thierry@herbelot.com, murray@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/28949: the mknod(8) man page stills refers to block devices although they no longer exist Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Synopsis: the mknod(8) man page stills refers to block devices although they no longer exist State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed State-Changed-By: murray State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 3 16:50:56 PDT 2001 State-Changed-Why: Do you have any proposed text for the mknod(8) man page now that block devices are gone? mknod still supports the creation of block devices, so perhaps we should just mentioned why we don't use them anymore in FreeBSD? - Murray Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->phk Responsible-Changed-By: murray Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Sep 3 16:50:56 PDT 2001 Responsible-Changed-Why: phk is the authority here. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28949 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message