Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:20:39 +0200 From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@freebsd.org>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r365643 - head/bin/cp Message-ID: <CAGudoHFLLeOxnUNzKyT-QhHw6xJM2n%2Bg9gEXKOXAE3EPhiY4pA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e8b729665b9af8092c36bbf77f4de208d781fbb.camel@freebsd.org> References: <a1302355a272f5790562551dfe7631c280107b55.camel@freebsd.org> <7CEB4168-005D-4C1B-9988-662BA1883EC0@freebsd.org> <4e8b729665b9af8092c36bbf77f4de208d781fbb.camel@freebsd.org>
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Perhaps this is a leftover from the installer (or some version of it anyway), i.e. this might have been happening in the past but likely does not now. fwiw I just exported / over nfs in a vm, /dev is empty On 9/25/20, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 20:48 +0100, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a wrote: >> > On 25 Sep 2020, at 19:12, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> [..] >> >> > (A question that occurs to me: could it be that the files you've >> > seen >> > got created at shutdown after devfs was unmounted, rather than at >> > startup? I don't know enough about the shutdown sequence to know >> > whether that's possible.) >> >> Thing is, if you unmount /dev, you are revoking >> all the device nodes, including your ttys and disk device nodes. You >> wouldn=E2=80=99t be able to properly shutdown afterwards. >> >> > > I was thinking more of something in the shutdown rc scripts or an > errant daemon process unmounting /dev. But it sounds like that's not > possible while disks are still mounted. > > -- Ian > > --=20 Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>
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