From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 22 12: 9: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA01637B43D for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:08:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2MK8Pk46103; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:08:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Sean Chittenden Cc: Dan Nelson , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/MAKEDEV not being installed? In-Reply-To: <20020322105715.E13034@ninja1.internal> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > > Just did a fresh install of -CURRENT and noticed that MAKEDEV > > > isn't being installed. This intentional? -sc > > > > MAKEDEV on -current is not needed, since devfs creates device nodes > > automatically. > > Alright, sounds good/believable, but how do I extend the number of pty's > on current then? I only see 20 tty* entries in /dev and would like the > full 256 like I compiled in. -sc New entries should clone themselves as needed, up to the precompiled limit. If this is not happening, it's a bug. :-) You can test this by sequentially opening /dev/ptty(n) entries and watch matching ttyp/r/q/s entries appear. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message