svn commit: r198768 - head/sbin/mknod

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 1 20:14:29 UTC 2009


Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 06:25:11PM +0000, Christian Brueffer wrote:
>> Author: brueffer
>> Date: Sun Nov  1 18:25:11 2009
>> New Revision: 198768
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198768
>>
>> Log:
>>   Refine r198714, it's not as easy as just leaving the major number zero.
>>   
>>   Submitted by:	ed
>>   MFC after:	1 week
>>
> 
> Moreover, you cannot create special node that would become a node used to
> access device driver in the freebsd.
> 
> The only use that is left for mknod c|b is to create special nodes on
> the filesystems exported by NFS for other un*xes.

I wonder if mknod c|b should print a warning?

Tim


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