Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:01:45 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. Message-ID: <20030227040145.GA25640@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030227033854.GA87187@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030227033854.GA87187@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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In the last episode (Feb 26), Kris Kennaway said: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:33:48PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want > > to. > > There are a number of ports that create device nodes in the package > tarball (e.g. the linux_base ports which create a shadow /dev). How > will this be affected under your plans? linux_base-7.1_2 doesn't put anything in /compat/linx/dev, and I don't see anything in linux_base-6's plist that indicates it does, either. Anything that tries to generate a device node in /dev from userland should already fail anyway, right? devfs won't let you do anything except make symlinks. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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