alpha/50868: fd0 floppy device is not mapped into /dev (XP1000) FreeBSD-5.0

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:00:23PM +0000, Sten Spans wrote..
> The following reply was made to PR alpha/50868; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Sten Spans <sten at blinkenlights.nl>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, root at fi.infn.it
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: alpha/50868: fd0 floppy device is not mapped into /dev (XP1000)
>  FreeBSD-5.0 
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:57:40 +0200 (CEST)
> 
>  This seems to be fixed in 6.0-CURRENT:
>  
>  deepthought# uname -a
>  FreeBSD deepthought.blinkenlights.nl 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #4: 
>  Mon May  9 22:44:34 CEST 2005 
>  root at deepthought.blinkenlights.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEEPTHOUGHT  alpha
>  deepthought# ls -la /dev/fd*
>  crw-r-----  1 root  operator   10, 102 May 22 23:14 /dev/fd0
>  
>  /dev/fd:
>  total 1
>  dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Jan  1  1970 .
>  dr-xr-xr-x  4 root  wheel       512 Jan  1  1970 ..
>  crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   10,  11 May 22 23:14 0
>  crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   10,   9 May 22 23:14 1
>  crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   10,  15 May 22 23:14 2
>  
>  There may be other problems with fd* on alpha, but this one seems
>  to have been fixed.

No:

FD(4)                  FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual
FD(4)

NAME
     fd, stdin, stdout, stderr -- file descriptor files

DESCRIPTION
     The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which
can
     be accessed through the file system.  If the file descriptor is open
and
     the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of the mode of the
     existing descriptor, the call:



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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org