Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:16:02 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?) Message-ID: <75038.997852562@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:30:56 %2B1000." <20010815113056.H854@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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In message <20010815113056.H854@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, Andrew Kenneth Milton writes: >+-------[ Greg Lehey ]---------------------- >| > >[snip] > >| whether it's been fixed. Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had >| a 16 character limit on device names, and it didn't understand >| subdirectories: it treated the / as a part of the device name. > >The subdir part bit me about a week ago, so I'd say it's still not fixed. This is absolutely news to me. I'm pretty sure that you will find that /dev/fd[012] exists on your system and that it was created using '/' in make_dev calls... More details on this bug are most welcome. I'm working on the 16char limit problem as well, but I want to avoid allocating memory in incovenient circumstances if at all possible. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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