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Date:      Sun, 7 May 2000 05:53:41 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Small MAKEDEV bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005070543520.8955-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <3913D862.960037A1@altavista.net>

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On Sat, 6 May 2000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> I've just noticed that "sh MAKEDEV acd1" doesn't produce node for acd1 due to
> incorrect comparasion in the "while" loop. This affecting both 4.0-STABLE and
> 5.0-CURRENT. With this message I'm attaching short patch which should solve
> this little problem.

This is the intended behaviour.  "sh MAKEDEV acdN" is supposed to create
N acd devices, numbered from 0 to N-1.  This broken behaviour was introduced
for cd*, mcd* and scd* in rev.1.171.  It has since spread to acd*.  Other
types of disks are handled correctly.

Bruce



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