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Date:      Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:48:29 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        John Prather <jprather@uci.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/emulators/linux_base-8 install problem
Message-ID:  <20050317234829.GA2398@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <423A15F8.8010200@uci.edu>
References:  <423A15F8.8010200@uci.edu>

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:42:48PM -0800, John Prather wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> Any reason linux_base-8 insists upon successfully using mknod in the=20
> installation in directories in the WRKDIRPREFIX, which may or may not be=
=20
> mounted with nodev option, and in my case resides within a jail, where=20
> mknod reports:
>=20
> mknod:=20
> /usr/local/ports/work/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/work/linux_base-8-=
8.0/dev/null:=20
> Operation not permitted
>=20
> Perhaps, since 5.x has been out for a while, some way of getting=20
> linux_base to use devfs instead of mknod might be nice?  I am told 6.x=20
> won't allow mknod at all, regardless of jail presence.

Yah, this needs to go away.  In 6.x you can make device nodes with
mknod, they just aren't useful on FreeBSD >=3D6 (you can export them to
other systems or stick them in tarballs, etc.)

I suspect we're actually going to need a lindevfs eventually.

-- Brooks

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