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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: savecore cannot find device? 
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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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