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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:31:21 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: userland|unprivileged file system handling tools 
Message-ID:  <10078.1080333081@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:23:58 PST." <20040326122333.S61326@carver.gumbysoft.com> 

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In message <20040326122333.S61326@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes:
>On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>> > As far as -current goes, mknod is not anything worth mentioning because of
>> > devfs.

This is actually wrong, mknod is the important tool you need when you
have "rm /dev/null"'ed your system and want to recover

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