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To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: userland|unprivileged file system handling tools 
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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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