From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 1 23:54:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA08311 for current-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 23:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA08306 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 23:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA27051; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:54:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA15649; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:41:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971002084132.IV40498@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:41:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: csgs@omega.ru.ac.za Subject: Re: fdesc file system causes instant reboot References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Graham Smith on Oct 1, 1997 20:29:07 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Graham Smith wrote: > We are running freeBSD current on a dual pentium 200. If we > mount fdesc with an /etc/fstab like so: > fdesc /dev fdesc rw,union > > and then do something like: > bash$ cat /dev/stdout | somenonexistantfile > > the machine reboots instantly. Probably not very surprising. I don't think fdesc is a supported filesystem currently. Also, mounting something over /dev cries for an error (you shadow all the existing /dev entries, so the only filesystem you should ever mount there is devfs). Finally, why don't you simply use the existing /dev/std* and /dev/fd/* entries? They are using a pseudo-device driver instead of a filesystem, but achieve the same goal. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)