From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 2 20:19:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C20037B491 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:19:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f134It949537; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:18:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200102030418.f134It949537@harmony.village.org> To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:04:29 PST." <3A76677C.1F1EBFF1@elischer.org> References: <3A76677C.1F1EBFF1@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:18:55 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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