Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:10:38 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha/50868: fd0 floppy device is not mapped into /dev (XP1000) FreeBSD-5.0 Message-ID: <20050524151038.GA5226@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200505232000.j4NK0Nc9076137@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200505232000.j4NK0Nc9076137@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:00:23PM +0000, Sten Spans wrote..
> The following reply was made to PR alpha/50868; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, root@fi.infn.it
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: alpha/50868: fd0 floppy device is not mapped into /dev (XP1000)
> FreeBSD-5.0
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:57:40 +0200 (CEST)
>
> This seems to be fixed in 6.0-CURRENT:
>
> deepthought# uname -a
> FreeBSD deepthought.blinkenlights.nl 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #4:
> Mon May 9 22:44:34 CEST 2005
> root@deepthought.blinkenlights.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEEPTHOUGHT alpha
> deepthought# ls -la /dev/fd*
> crw-r----- 1 root operator 10, 102 May 22 23:14 /dev/fd0
>
> /dev/fd:
> total 1
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 1 1970 .
> dr-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jan 1 1970 ..
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 10, 11 May 22 23:14 0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 10, 9 May 22 23:14 1
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 10, 15 May 22 23:14 2
>
> There may be other problems with fd* on alpha, but this one seems
> to have been fixed.
No:
FD(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual
FD(4)
NAME
fd, stdin, stdout, stderr -- file descriptor files
DESCRIPTION
The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which
can
be accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is open
and
the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of the mode of the
existing descriptor, the call:
--
Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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