From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 17 11:10:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27250 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:10:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27235 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:10:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA01674; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd001670; Tue Feb 17 11:04:04 1998 Message-ID: <34E9DE3B.284797A9@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:00:11 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs persistence References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > The only thing not clear to me (I know this is obvious), is; With an all > DEVFS, can I still do ``mkdir -p /a/b/c/d;cd /a/b/c/d;mknod foo c 123 456, > or its equivalent? If not, then symbolic links are fine too. you cannot mknod. only the drivers can make nodes. (though there are ways to solve some problems you might normally try use mknod for) > > Oh, a /dev DEVFS mounted, can it create links and/or symlinks? > Why not? The user can use ln (with or without -s) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message