Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 11:52:43 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, current@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Hmmmm! New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp Message-ID: <9507201752.AA02515@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507201102.VAA22942@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 20, 95 09:02:31 pm
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> Now I can think of some more places: for `cpio -i', 32-bit rdevs in the > input may be silently truncated if ints or rdevs in the target system > are less than 32 bits. I think there are similar bugs in nfs. The "bug" is that device file systems should be accessed locally through devfs only for BSD-to-BSD and that device nodes are an antiquated concept that should be present only fodiskless support of legacy systems. If there's going to be a hatchet-job on minor numbers, then it ought to be done all the way instead of half-heartedly. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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