mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

[Ruben de Groot]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:25:24AM +0000, Freminlins typed:
> Kris,
> 
> On 29/01/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >To put it bluntly, it's something you're just going to have to get
> >over :-)
> 
> 
> That's unhelpful. It is, in my opinion, a bad idea to have to mount up 1400
> instances of devfs just to get a few device nodes. It just doesn't seem
> right. It's a kludge. What I will do instread is migrate the box to Solaris
> where I can do what I want to do.

Not exactly. Solaris, especially Solaris 10 is relying more and more on 
pseudo filesystems.

# uname -srpi
SunOS 5.10 sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210
# mount | grep '^/devices'
/devices on /devices read/write/setuid/devices/dev=47c0000 on Thu Nov  2 16:14:25 2006

Everything in /dev is just a symlink to /devices.

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Ruben