/dev/null doesn't get created

Jiawei Ye leafy7382 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 08:40:40 PDT 2004


On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:21:12 +0200, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
> +-le 01/08/2004 11:07 -0400, Derek Tattersall écrivait :
> | CURRENT as of this morning dint'create /dev/null.  My previous
> | CURRENT, from July 25 created it fine so all was well.Can anybody
> | offer me a clue as to what this is all about?  I tried to figure out
> | what causes /dev/null to get created, but was unsuccessful.
> 
> 
> Maybe you did not read UPDATING :
> 
> 20040801:
>        The /dev/mem, /dev/io /dev/(null/zero) devices are now modules,
>        so you may wish to add them to your kernel config file. See
>        GENERIC for examples.
> 
> --
> Mathieu Arnold
'options io' is not in GENERIC, is this intended?

Jiawei Ye


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