Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:15:31 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912150105360.6917-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912132204340.99571-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > So how about /usr/sbin/chown -> /sbin/chown so that MAKEDEV works with > > just the root file system mounted? > > As one who just got his ass bitten by this, I would vote yes. On a related subject: don't you think it's high time to end up this madness with MAKEDEV being a shell script, and reimplement it in C? Today, MAKEDEV uses about 10 external programs, it's inflexible and complicated, but the task it's doing could be relatively easily ported to C plus config file. Have you ever tried to use it in nonstandad location, or on a minimal system? The end result is usually an unpleasant surprise... Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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