Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:40:02 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/25761: Off-by-one error in MAKEDEV wrt. pass(4) device. Message-ID: <200103140440.f2E4e2Z96030@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/25761; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: todd.showalter@home.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/25761: Off-by-one error in MAKEDEV wrt. pass(4) device. Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:36:25 -0800 (PST) I don't think this is quite right. The MAKEDEV script's man page doesn't say this, but for the few devices where the numeric argument is not the actual unit number you want created it seems that this is more an 'amount', so doing MAKEDEV pass4 creates 4 pass devices (0..3). This code seems to probably have started with the vty devices. The comment in MAKEDEV appears to be: # Use this to create virtual consoles for syscons, pcvt or codrv # ttyv0-b # use as MAKEDEV vtyNN to create NN entries So, I think we can basically say, "Not a bug". -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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