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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:02:28 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@freebsd.org, bde@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/14300: MAKEDEV requires /usr to be mounted (for chown(1)) 
Message-ID:  <13546.939816148@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:20:01 MST." <199910131120.EAA86889@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:20:01 MST, Nick Hibma wrote:

>  The diff below contains one line wrapping in line 4.

This change was made "necessary" by etc.i386/MAKEDEV rev 1.148, by jkh.
It claims to have "strengthened" the mknod() function, although it seems
mostly to have made MAKEDEV dependant on a mounted /usr partition.

Jordan, do you remember what the change actually solved?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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