Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:16:09 -0700 (PDT) From: thierry herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/28949: the mknod(8) man page stills refers to block devices although they no longer exist Message-ID: <200107131516.f6DFG9915770@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 28949
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: the mknod(8) man page stills refers to block devices although they no longer exist
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 13 08:20:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: thierry herbelot
>Release: 4.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD test.XXX 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 11 15:50:08 CEST 2001 test.XXX:/usr/src/sys/compile/test i386
>Description:
the mknod(8) man page says :
--------
b | c Type of device. If the device is a block type device such
as a tape or disk drive which needs both cooked and raw
special files, the type is b. All other devices are
character type devices, such as terminal and pseudo devices,
and are type c.
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a brief look at the MAKEDEV code shows :
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test% grep mknod MAKEDEV | grep " b "
test%
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the "b" option is no longer used (but the option is still present in the 1.13 version of mknod.c ....)
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
check that the "b" option is no longer used, the rip it off of the code and man page
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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