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Date:      Fri, 29 May 1998 18:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   I see one major problem with DEVFS...
Message-ID:  <199805300108.SAA16711@time.cdrom.com>

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bash# ls -l bpf*
crw-------  1 root  wheel   23,   0 May 29 08:03 bpf0
crw-------  1 root  wheel   23,   1 May 29 08:03 bpf1
crw-------  1 root  wheel   23,   2 May 29 08:03 bpf2
crw-------  1 root  wheel   23,   3 May 29 08:03 bpf4
bash# rm bpf4
bash# ls -l bpf*
crw-------  1 root  wheel   23,   0 May 29 08:03 bpf0
crw-------  1 root  wheel   23,   1 May 29 08:03 bpf1
crw-------  1 root  wheel   23,   2 May 29 08:03 bpf2
bash# mknod bpf4 c 23 3

E.g. I can shoot my foot off, but I can't sew it back on. :-)

Also, while I'm on this topic, what is the purpose served by
DEVFS auto-mounting itself on "dummy_mount"?  I'm only going to
mount it as /dev later, so I don't really get the idea behind
the first instance of it.  Is it for "cloning" purposes or
something?

- Jordan


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