From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 14 22:16:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4EF37B40B; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:16:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7F5G2n75040; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:16:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: Greg Lehey , Michael Lucas , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:30:56 +1000." <20010815113056.H854@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:16:02 +0200 Message-ID: <75038.997852562@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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