From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 15 00:17:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00362 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:17:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00356 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:17:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3a) id BAA17629; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 01:16:35 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199803150816.BAA17629@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 01:16:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803150128.RAA06992@myrtle1.bogs.org> from Greg Shenaut at "Mar 14, 98 05:27:56 pm" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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? > > -Greg Yes. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message