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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--k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCOhdMXY6L6fI4GtQRAuirAJ9GiRBq5hXC8IewnjL+tDpTvdUhYQCfVin4 fTUtMhhJiUyTagk4H7T/hZI= =YA4F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0--
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