From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 26 22:30:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC16037B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:30:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313E343FAF for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B7B679DA; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3080A1248; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:30:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:30:40 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Nelson Cc: Kris Kennaway , Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. Message-ID: <20030227063039.GA88321@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030227033854.GA87187@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030227040145.GA25640@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UugvWAfsgieZRqgk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030227040145.GA25640@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:01:45PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. > >=20 > > 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? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. No, it definitely does. I noticed this because I recently made a change to the bento package builds so they build packages in a jail instead of a chroot. A number of packages (3-4) failed because they try and mknod at install-time, which is disallowed within a jail. See e.g. http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-4-exp-latest/linux_base-7.1_2.log Kris --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+XbCPWry0BWjoQKURAhu3AJ4ldM/ax0qaovIAmCp+wF5O/U2N6QCg4sFg /FMF2erHr5H9sz4/ngE09F8= =zNZI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message