Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:47:29 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Edward Tomasz =?iso-8859-2?Q?Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@freebsd.org> Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r365643 - head/bin/cp Message-ID: <4e8b729665b9af8092c36bbf77f4de208d781fbb.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7CEB4168-005D-4C1B-9988-662BA1883EC0@freebsd.org> References: <a1302355a272f5790562551dfe7631c280107b55.camel@freebsd.org> <7CEB4168-005D-4C1B-9988-662BA1883EC0@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 20:48 +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > > On 25 Sep 2020, at 19:12, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > [..] > > > (A question that occurs to me: could it be that the files you've > > seen > > got created at shutdown after devfs was unmounted, rather than at > > startup? I don't know enough about the shutdown sequence to know > > whether that's possible.) > > Thing is, if you unmount /dev, you are revoking > all the device nodes, including your ttys and disk device nodes. You > wouldn’t be able to properly shutdown afterwards. > > I was thinking more of something in the shutdown rc scripts or an errant daemon process unmounting /dev. But it sounds like that's not possible while disks are still mounted. -- Ian
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