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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:51:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Richard J. Kuhns" <rjk@grauel.com>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running Linux FlagShip under FreeBSD-current 
Message-ID:  <199711111851.NAA07982@sawmill.grauel.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711111712.SAA25979@bowtie.nl>
References:  <199711111609.LAA07600@sawmill.grauel.com> <199711111712.SAA25979@bowtie.nl>

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Marc van Kempen writes:
  I wrote:
 > > I used mknod to create a /dev/full with the same major/minor as /dev/null,
 > > but that failed also (with the same message), and none of the Linux systems
 > > or books I have access to mention /dev/full.
 > > 
 > I have a /dev/full on the Red hat system that I have (and 
 > administer as you can see ;) ;))
 > 
 > [marc@linsux ~]$ ls -l /dev/full
 > crw-r--r--   1 root     root       1,   7 Jan  1  1980 /dev/full
 > 
 > Try that and let me know how it goes.
 > 
 > Marc.
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------
 > Marc van Kempen                 BowTie Technology     
 > Email: marc@bowtie.nl            WWW & Databases
 > tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65         
 > fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86         http://www.bowtie.nl
 > ----------------------------------------------------

I'm afraid that doesn't help too much; any relationship between major
numbers under Linux and major numbers under FreeBSD would appear to be
purely coincidental.

Thanks anyhow, though.
--
Richard Kuhns			rjk@grauel.com
PO Box 6249			Tel: (765)477-6000 \
100 Sawmill Road				    x319
Lafayette, IN  47903		     (800)489-4891 /



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