From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 13:30:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3606316A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:30:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64A843D45 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:30:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i2QLUin3050633; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:30:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:30:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20040326213043.GF3446@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040326122333.S61326@carver.gumbysoft.com> <10078.1080333081@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10078.1080333081@critter.freebsd.dk> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Luigi Rizzo cc: "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: userland|unprivileged file system handling tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:30:45 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 26), Poul-Henning Kamp said: > 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 devfs rule apply path null unhide works also, although it's a lot to remember. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com