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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:36:41 +0000
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port venti FreeBSD
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>>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'.