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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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Subject: emulators/rtc under 4-stable with vmware 2
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Dear Mike,

after your commit

> silby       2004/03/13 13:20:04 PST
>
>   FreeBSD ports repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     emulators/rtc        Makefile pkg-plist
>     emulators/rtc/files  rtc.c
>   Log:
>   Update the rtc device to use dynamic numbering on -current.  In order to
>   accomdate this change, stop using device nodes in /usr/compat/linux/dev
>   and instead rely on the linuxalator passing through requests to the
>   real /dev.  (This second change also applies to 4.x).
>
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.23      +2 -3      ports/emulators/rtc/Makefile
>   1.15      +3 -2      ports/emulators/rtc/files/rtc.c
>   1.4       +1 -4      ports/emulators/rtc/pkg-plist

VMWare (at least emulators/vmware2) can not open rtc device anymore.
Appropriate mknod in linux /dev fixes this. Possibly I missed something?

I'm under FreeBSD RELENG_4, sources from 23 Mar.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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