From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Sep 17 1:18:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A66014F99 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 01:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: (qmail 18326 invoked from network); 17 Sep 1999 08:18:17 -0000 Received: from d241.syd2.zeta.org.au (203.26.9.113) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 17 Sep 1999 08:18:17 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:18:11 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/13768: sh MAKEDEV cdN creates all cd(N-1)-devices for all N>0 In-Reply-To: <199909160750.AAA80045@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > sh MAKEDEV cd5 > > > By the command above you tell that you have five CD drives on your system. > .. and MAKEDEV build devices for all five CDs. > And it is consistent with `MAKEDEV vtyN', for example. > So, what (by your opinion) should be fixed? All cases where MAKEDEV creates N or N+1 units for `MAKEDEV fooN' where `foo' is a hardware device. All cases where MAKEDEV provides no way to create one device `fooN' (cases like vtyN should be handled by iterating at an outer level instead of an inner level). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message