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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: DEVFS 
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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


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