kern/99251: can't create symlink named like an existing device on devfs

[Craig Rodrigues]

Synopsis: can't create symlink named like an existing device on devfs

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: rodrigc
State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 21 16:02:34 UTC 2006
State-Changed-Why: 
In FreeBSD 5.x and higher, /dev is a mount point for the devfs filesystem.
Entries in /dev are created automatically in the kernel, and are not
persisted on disk.  What you are trying to do, i.e. delete /dev/mem
and symlink it to /dev/null does't make sense.  See the man page
for devfs(5).

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