bin/166664: patch man devd to note /sbin/devd parses backward through devd.conf

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Thu Apr 5 10:50:14 UTC 2012


>Number:         166664
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       patch man devd to note /sbin/devd parses backward through devd.conf
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 05 10:50:05 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Julian H. Stacey
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD fire.js.berklix.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 2 23:10:13 CEST 2011 jhs at blak.js.berklix.net:/ad6s4/release/8.2-RELEASE/src/sys/amd64/compile/FIRE64.small amd64


	
>Description:
	patch man devd to note /sbin/devd parses backward through devd.conf
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	Copy in my sample,
	Change to numbers of 2 similar products you have, & try it.
	Apply the patch.
	(delete the example if you want, it's primarily there to
	show the commiter a concrete example)
	
>Fix:
	http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/generic/src/sbin/devd/
*** 8.2-RELEASE/src/sbin/devd/devd.8	Thu Apr  5 12:16:45 2012
--- new-generic/src/sbin/devd/devd.8	Thu Apr  5 12:29:41 2012
***************
*** 129,134 ****
--- 129,166 ----
  .Ux
  domain socket at
  .Pa /var/run/devd.pipe .
+ .Sh BUGS
+ .Pa /sbin/devd
+ parses backward (not forwards as a human editing 
+ .Pa /etc/devd.conf
+ would intuitively expect), looking for a match.
+ .br
+ Example: zogi is seen as mueller, unless the lower sernum uncommented.
+ .in +2
+ .nf
+ attach 1000 {   #  ZOGI name on case
+         match   "vendor"        "0x058f"        ;
+         match   "product"       "0x6387"        ;
+         match   "sernum"        "47F0CAFA"      ;
+         match   "release"       "0x0103"        ;
+         action  "sleep 2; rm -f /devusb/zogi; \
+          ln -s /dev/`echo $device-name|sed -e s/umass/da/`s1 /devusb/zogi;\
+          fsck -y -t msdosfs /devusb/zogi; mkdir /usb/zogi ; \
+          chmod 777 /usb/zogi ; mount -t msdosfs /devusb/zogi /usb/zogi" ;
+         };
+ attach 1000 { # bought from Mueller 
+         match   "vendor"        "0x058f"        ;
+         match   "product"       "0x6387"        ;
+         match   "release"       "0x0103"        ;
+         # match   "sernum"        "67843FC2"      ;
+         action  "sleep 5        ; \
+          rm -f /devusb/mueller  ; \
+          ln -s /dev/`echo $device-name|sed -e s/umass/da/`s1 /devusb/mueller; \
+          mkdir  /usb/mueller ; chmod 777 /usb/mueller   ;       \
+          mount -t msdosfs /devusb/mueller /usb/mueller" ;
+         };
+ .fi
+ .in -2
  .Sh FILES
  .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/run/devd.pipe" -compact
  .It Pa /etc/devd.conf
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


More information about the freebsd-bugs mailing list