Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:34:03 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105111832360.533-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <81000.989568380@critter>
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105101035000.20994-100000@beppo.feral.com>, Matthew > Jacob writes: > > > > > >On Thu, 10 May 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> Just installed recent -CURRENT on my PC, and noticed strange things: > >> > >> 1) If I don't have devfs line in /etc/fstab, why DEVFS mount is still > >> happening on /dev, and where? > > > >Somewhat wierdly and unobviously, it's init that does the magic. > > this is basically because it is one line to do it in /sbin/init, > but about 100 to do it in the kernel. > > Blame the poor design of mount(2) (and ask Adrian when he fixes > it :-) It must be the excellent design of mount(2) that makes it so easy to do things with it where it can be used :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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