Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:57:13 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20070130175713.GB46597@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0701300125n2056eb19m180b7389f1638d71@mail.gmail.com> References: <eeef1a4c0701260840pef414f9h3e76fce789c06386@mail.gmail.com> <20070126174826.GA13730@xor.obsecurity.org> <eeef1a4c0701261505g7258ae9cx7bcb70a825fb8c88@mail.gmail.com> <20070126234756.GA19420@xor.obsecurity.org> <eeef1a4c0701280756m3014f3acu15398d43e7a309e2@mail.gmail.com> <20070128184925.GB61662@xor.obsecurity.org> <eeef1a4c0701290507n1aa08ebby380cc688f23ed09e@mail.gmail.com> <20070129142029.GA45960@xor.obsecurity.org> <eeef1a4c0701300125n2056eb19m180b7389f1638d71@mail.gmail.com>
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--UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:25:24AM +0000, Freminlins wrote: > Kris, >=20 > On 29/01/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > > > > >To put it bluntly, it's something you're just going to have to get > >over :-) >=20 >=20 > That's unhelpful. It is, in my opinion, a bad idea to have to mount up 14= 00 > instances of devfs just to get a few device nodes. It just doesn't seem > right. It's a kludge. What I will do instread is migrate the box to Solar= is > where I can do what I want to do. OK. > It's a poor argument to say basically "that's the way it is". I have alwa= ys > found FreeBSD to be flexible, not restrictive. "That's the way it is" is a statement of truth, not an argument. > If devfs is the only way to go, why does mknod still exist? Why does it > allow me to create device nodes that don't work? Compatibility with other OSes when used as an NFS server. Kris --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFv4b5Wry0BWjoQKURAvjjAKD5eqaXXXV67hgWTmV8JbEtQ+zL+ACcC7Uo 6vQ8Ryt9WR5VO1zOEo7UviA= =u12m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB--
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