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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> des         2001/12/03 16:48:22 PST
>
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  MAKEDEV
>   Log:
>   Call the ATAPI tape devices "ast" and "nast", not "rast" and "nrast".  Add
>   backward compatibility symlinks for good measure.
>   DEVFS already gets this right (except for the symlinks).

DEVFS already gets this right by not creating any links.  I removed all the
"r" devices (from /dev, not MAKEDEV) a year or two ago and haven't had any
problems.  The links, if any, should be hard links anyway, the same as for
all other "r" devices.

Bruce


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