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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port venti FreeBSD
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:36:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <392010f8703d4ce0b6fdf23283fa296b@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EsYGB-0001AI-E9@quenix1.dyndns.org>

>>It seems that the major device number have change from FreeBSD 4.X to

i wonder how many years it will be before the unix clones undo that
aspect of the original design that could do with a change?
you might have thought that devfs would fix it, but no,
and furthermore, there's still mknod, `to recover deleted device entries'.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-31 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-21  4:07 Serge Gagnon
2005-12-21  4:43 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-21  4:44   ` Russ Cox
2005-12-27 19:41   ` Serge Gagnon
2005-12-30 19:40     ` Russ Cox
2005-12-31  4:22       ` Serge Gagnon
2005-12-31 10:36         ` C H Forsyth [this message]
2005-12-31 13:50           ` Russ Cox
     [not found] <200512210421.jBL4LmZv058701@gate.bitblocks.com>
2005-12-22 18:22 ` Serge Gagnon
2005-12-22 19:04   ` Russ Cox
2005-12-22 20:06     ` Serge Gagnon

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