From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 13 8:20:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840AF37B408 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6DFK1s16150; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B60B37B403 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:16:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6DFG9915770; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:16:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <200107131516.f6DFG9915770@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:16:09 -0700 (PDT) From: thierry herbelot To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 Subject: docs/28949: the mknod(8) man page stills refers to block devices although they no longer exist Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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. --------- a brief look at the MAKEDEV code shows : --------- test% grep mknod MAKEDEV | grep " b " test% --------- 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: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message