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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: devname(3) broken for DEFVS 
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>Hi Poul-Henning,
>
>I've been having trouble with ps(1) printing invalid controlling
>terminal names for processes connected to psuedo-terminals.
>
>This only seems to be a problem for DEVFS-enabled systems.

Yes, devname(3) need to learn a few things.  It's actually always
been a problem if you added device nodes after boot where dev_mkdb
was run.

I think the DTRT solution is a sysctl where kern_conf.c can answer
the question.

It's on my list.

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