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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. 
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:38:55 PST."
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In message <20030227033854.GA87187@rot13.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes:
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>On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:33:48PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>> We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want to.
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>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?

Depends what the shadow /dev contains and how it is used.

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