Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 20:09:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code Message-ID: <199803150409.UAA09297@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:27:56 PST." <199803150128.RAA06992@myrtle1.bogs.org>
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> Actually, I've always wondered by MAKEDEV sits in /dev--of course, > there is now a considerable tradition for it, but doesn't it make > more sense to split it into a standard utility, "makedev", which > lives in /sbin, plus a standard-but-modifiable database which lives > in /etc called "devtab" and "devtab.local" or whatever? Makedev will (god willing) not be a standard part of the system in 3.0; device nodes will appear and disappear by magic. (I am, incidentally, not kidding.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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