Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:18:55 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Message-ID: <200102030418.f134It949537@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:04:29 PST." <3A76677C.1F1EBFF1@elischer.org> References: <3A76677C.1F1EBFF1@elischer.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101300832480.46219-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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In message <3A76677C.1F1EBFF1@elischer.org> Julian Elischer writes: : you can't.. what is the major number? : : You don't know because they will be dynamically assigned. : Only the kernel knows. : Eventually, major numbers may go away entirely, (or just be a : comlpetely random meaningless number, present only to keep old : programs like tar() happy). What if I want to create a few devices (eg not all in the system) in a chroot'd environment? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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