Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:03:23 +0000 From: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> To: "Ruben de Groot" <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD Message-ID: <eeef1a4c0701310903v504bcb42i2801e1084850ebb7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070131162752.GA85152@ei.bzerk.org> 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> <20070131162752.GA85152@ei.bzerk.org>
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Ruben, On 31/01/07, Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> wrote: > > Not exactly. Solaris, especially Solaris 10 is relying more and more on > pseudo filesystems. > > # uname -srpi > SunOS 5.10 sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 > # mount | grep '^/devices' > /devices on /devices read/write/setuid/devices/dev=47c0000 on Thu Nov 2 > 16:14:25 2006 > > Everything in /dev is just a symlink to /devices. That's true BUT I can still use mknod to create a device node elsewhere and it works. I'm not complaining about devfs, just that I would be forced to use devfs on FreeBSD when IMHO mknod would suffice and used to suffice. -- > Ruben Frem.
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