From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 26 14:11:50 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from klapaucius.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17C537B69E; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:11:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Received: by klapaucius.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6756D239AAB; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:11:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:11:44 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Nik Clayton Cc: Julian Elischer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf majors Message-ID: <20010226141144.U656@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <200102260955.f1Q9t2m39414@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010226130843.A2853@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010226130843.A2853@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:08:43PM +0000 Organization: daemonnews Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-02-26 13:08 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:55:02AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > julian 2001/02/26 01:55:02 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/conf majors > > Log: > > take major number 18 for the nmdm "nullmodem" back-to-back tty device. > > Incredibally useful for debugging kernels using vmware. > > Vmware com1 is diverted to one side, and gdb listens to the other side. > > viola.. instant debugging sandbox on one system. > > I, and no doubt the DaemonNews folks, would be incredibly grateful if > you could write up an article explaining how to do this. . . Absolutely! How about it, Julian? Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter mailto:gsutter@daemonnews.org hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message