From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 22 15:37:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26364 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 15:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (74-sweet.camalott.com [208.239.153.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26347 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 15:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA57150; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 17:34:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: Randall Hopper Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE Feedback References: <19981122100830.A7061@pagesz.net> <861zmvpqd3.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <19981122131714.A632@pagesz.net> <86ww4no9ng.fsf@detlev.UUCP> <19981122134811.A1167@pagesz.net> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 22 Nov 1998 17:34:44 -0600 In-Reply-To: Randall Hopper's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 1998 13:48:11 -0500" Message-ID: <8667c75mjv.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> stealth : /dev # sh MAKEDEV cd1 >> Sorry, I omitted one minor detail. MAKEDEV syntax means that you use >> the number of devices. If you want to create cd0 and cd1's stuff, you >> must MAKEDEV cd2 (ie, 2 devices). > Ok, that works, but it seems odd. And it appears it isn't applied across > the board. For example, when I needed to make my hard drive slice > partitions, I needed to explicitly specify the hard drive, slice, and > partition to get them. For example: You had best look over the source to MAKEDEV (it's just a shell script). If you want to standardize it some, feel free to send in a pr. I suspect that the devfs will be completely working soon (anybody have a status report on that?), so it may not be worthwhile. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message