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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:39:32 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>, Current <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: savecore cannot find device? 
Message-ID:  <80454.971257172@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:49:45 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010111625580.26382-100000@besplex.bde.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010111625580.26382-100000@besplex.bde.org>, Bruce Ev
ans writes:

>Probably that you shouldn't have downgraded savecore by updating it
>:-).  savecore now uses devname() but devname() is too unreliable to
>use for anything except informational output.

It always were:

	boot
	log in
	mv /dev/something /dev/other
	# devname(3) gives wrong output

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