Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:39:54 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Indra <john@naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Message-ID: <26895.980836794@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:48:48 %2B1030." <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In message <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >> You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. > >What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know >whether the system is running DEVFS or not? The reson for not creating device nodes is that you don't have all the information you'll need to really do it. To find out if you are running on a DEVFS system, look for existence of the sysctl variable "vfs.devfs.generation" -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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