Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:32:50 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@msn.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zero and null regression? Message-ID: <20041001163250.GA71766@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY11-F3Pylh7i70A780001c865@hotmail.com> References: <BAY11-F3Pylh7i70A780001c865@hotmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:02:58AM +0000, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > After upgrading a 6-CURRENT machine from a 5 day old kernel to one cvsuped > just a few hours ago, special files zero and null created through mknod no > longer works. > > # mknod zerotest c 2 12 > # chmod 666 zerotest > # cat zerotest > /dev/null > cat: zerotest: Socket operation on non-socket > > Could this be related to the vfs stuff Poul-Henning Kamp is working with? I'm pretty sure this is by design - see phk's commits and related discussion. Use devfs for device nodes. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBXYayWry0BWjoQKURAq7wAKDVhSgfg+WnPRmX9Jh1YcL0ELyQ4QCgzVil NR32u9QuZE9TEzF4MBYF2T0= =Qp9Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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