Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 09:16:31 -0500 (EST) From: taob@netcom.ca To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: misc/5411: /dev/MAKEDEV reverse mknod arguments for vty* target Message-ID: <199801021416.JAA12428@risc.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199801021420.GAA03948@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 5411
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: /dev/MAKEDEV reverse mknod arguments for vty* target
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 2 06:20:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Brian Tao
>Organization:
Netcom Canada
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-980101-SNAP i386
>Environment:
3.0-980101-SNAP default installation.
>Description:
3.0-980101-SNAP creates /dev/ttyv* entries with the wrong
major/minor device numbers.
>How-To-Repeat:
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV vty8
# ls -l
crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 12 Jan 2 08:20 ttyv0
crw------- 1 root wheel 1, 12 Jan 2 08:52 ttyv1
crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 12 Jan 2 08:52 ttyv2
crw------- 1 root wheel 3, 12 Jan 2 08:52 ttyv3
crw------- 1 root wheel 4, 12 Jan 2 08:52 ttyv4
crw------- 1 root wheel 5, 12 Jan 2 08:52 ttyv5
crw------- 1 root wheel 6, 12 Jan 2 08:52 ttyv6
crw------- 1 root wheel 7, 12 Jan 2 08:20 ttyv7
>Fix:
Reverse the order of the mknod arguments for vty:
*** MAKEDEV Fri Jan 2 09:10:49 1998
--- MAKEDEV.orig Thu Jan 1 05:09:31 1998
***************
*** 696,702 ****
units=`expr $i : 'vty\(.*\)'`
eval `echo ${chr} ${units} | awk ' { c=$1; n=$2 } END {
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
! printf("mknod ttyv%01x c %d %d;", i, c, i); }'`
ln -fs ttyv0 vga # XXX X still needs this pccons relic
;;
--- 696,702 ----
units=`expr $i : 'vty\(.*\)'`
eval `echo ${chr} ${units} | awk ' { c=$1; n=$2 } END {
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
! printf("mknod ttyv%01x c %d %d;", i, i, c); }'`
ln -fs ttyv0 vga # XXX X still needs this pccons relic
;;
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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