Strangeness with /dev nodes and mknod

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 05:42:38PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> I have a box running 6.0-STABLE as of 10 Nov last year.
> 
> Previously I had created device nodes for /dev/random within chroot
> environments (this was for building and testing openssl). However now they
> don't work. I am left with the strange situation that device nodes from
> devfs work, but seemingly indentical device nodes created with mknod don't.
> 
> # dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=8 | hexdump
> 8+0 records in
> 8+0 records out
> 8 bytes transferred in 0.000070 secs (114131 bytes/sec)
> 0000000 6eaf 1d71 513b 8d8c                    
> 0000008
> # mknod /tmp/test1 c 0 24 root:wheel
> # mknod /tmp/test2 c 24 0 root:wheel
> # chmod 666 /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2
> # ls -l /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  24 Mar 15 17:45 /tmp/test1
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   24,   0 Mar 15 17:45 /tmp/test2
> # dd if=/tmp/test1 bs=1 count=8 | hexdump
> dd: /tmp/test1: Operation not supported
> # dd if=/tmp/test2 bs=1 count=8 | hexdump
> dd: /tmp/test2: Operation not supported
> 
> Why do my lovingly hand-created device nodes fail with "Operation not
> supported"?

man devfs; you don't (can't) create device nodes by hand any more.

Kris
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