userland|unprivileged file system handling tools

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Mar 26 12:31:25 PST 2004


In message <20040326122333.S61326 at carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes:
>On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>> > As far as -current goes, mknod is not anything worth mentioning because of
>> > devfs.

This is actually wrong, mknod is the important tool you need when you
have "rm /dev/null"'ed your system and want to recover

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