userland|unprivileged file system handling tools

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 26 22:35:37 PST 2004


On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Doug White wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> > > As far as -current goes, mknod is not anything worth mentioning because of
> > > devfs.
> >
> > I disagree with this assessment. mknod is still useful in -current, for
> > instance in a chroot setup where you only need one or two devices.
>
> Like which? :-)

For example, the named chroot requires both a null and random device.

Doug

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