From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 8 6:20:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0650137B407 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 06:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g58DK2E72873; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 06:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6F037B40B for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 06:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/ - 15/04/02) with ESMTP id g58DAMfA025723 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:10:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g58DAMG9025722; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:10:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Message-Id: <200206081310.g58DAMG9025722@abigail.blackend.org> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:10:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Fonvieille Reply-To: Marc Fonvieille To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/39025: Minor changes in section 3.9 of the Handbook Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 39025 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Minor changes in section 3.9 of the Handbook >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 08 06:20:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Marc Fonvieille >Release: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD abigail.blackend.org 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #5: Sun May 12 00:30:43 CEST 2002 marc@abigail.blackend.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ABIGAIL i386 >Description: Minor changes in section 3.9 of the Handbook: - a typo: "a device driver often-times needs to be created." should be "a device node often-times needs to be created." - addition of literal tags for devfs. Read the patch below for more details. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Apply the patch to handbook/basics/chapter.sgml --- chapter.sgml.diff begins here --- --- chapter.sgml.org Sat Jun 8 14:42:30 2002 +++ chapter.sgml Sat Jun 8 15:03:28 2002 @@ -1308,12 +1308,12 @@ Creating Device Nodes When adding a new device to your system, or compiling - in support for additional devices, a device driver + in support for additional devices, a device node often-times needs to be created. MAKEDEV Script - On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created + On systems without devfs, device nodes are created using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below: &prompt.root; cd /dev @@ -1327,15 +1327,15 @@ devfs (Device File System) - The device filesystem, or devfs, provides access to + The device filesystem, or devfs, provides access to kernel's device namespace in the global filesystem namespace. Instead of having to create and modify device nodes, - devfs maintains this particular filesystem for you. + devfs maintains this particular filesystem for you. See the &man.devfs.5; man page for more information. - devfs is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0. + devfs is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0. --- chapter.sgml.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message