/usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

Danny Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Sun Oct 28 10:22:45 PDT 2007


> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:37:45PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
> > Thanks for replying, but once again I've miscommunicated the issue.  I 
> > meant that MAKEDEV.8 is in /usr/src/share/man/man8/, and the
> > modification time is Oct 13th, recent, which suggests to me that it's still 
> > in the 7.0-BETA1 cvs tree.
> 
> And you're very much correct:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

how about reading what ity says? it might be very educational :-)

NAME
     MAKEDEV -- old script for creating device nodes

DESCRIPTION
     The MAKEDEV script was deprecated by devfs(5) and removed from FreeBSD
     after devfs(5) became mandatory.





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