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

[Christian Recktenwald]

Hi Craig,

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:04:41PM +0000, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> 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.  

for /my/jail/dev it makes a lot of sense to "redirect" device entries.

> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=99251

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