svn commit: r365643 - head/bin/cp

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 25 21:47:33 UTC 2020


On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 20:48 +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> > On 25 Sep 2020, at 19:12, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
> > (A question that occurs to me:  could it be that the files you've
> > seen
> > got created at shutdown after devfs was unmounted, rather than at
> > startup?  I don't know enough about the shutdown sequence to know
> > whether that's possible.)
> 
> Thing is, if you unmount /dev, you are revoking
> all the device nodes, including your ttys and disk device nodes.  You
> wouldn’t be able to properly shutdown afterwards.
> 
> 

I was thinking more of something in the shutdown rc scripts or an
errant daemon process unmounting /dev.  But it sounds like that's not
possible while disks are still mounted.

-- Ian



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