userland|unprivileged file system handling tools

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Mar 26 13:30:45 PST 2004


In the last episode (Mar 26), Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> 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

devfs rule apply path null unhide

works also, although it's a lot to remember.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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