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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Doug Barton wrote:

> > As far as -current goes, mknod is not anything worth mentioning because of
> > devfs.
>
> I disagree with this assessment. mknod is still useful in -current, for
> instance in a chroot setup where you only need one or two devices.

Like which? :-)

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