Create device

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Dec 26 20:15:25 PST 2004


On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Chris Hill wrote:

> MAKEDEV doesn't exist on 5.x, so if you're running 5.x that might also 
> explain it not working.

That's because on 5.x you don't need it; devices live in their own special
filesystem, and are created on the fly:

stinky% df /dev
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity  Mounted on
devfs              1    1     0   100%    /dev

-- Dave


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