devfs ignores pass0 entry at boot time

[Mark Nowiasz]

Am Montag, 10. März 2008 15:23:59 schrieb Paul B. Mahol:
> I could not reproduce it on i386.
> I moved pass entry in devfs.rules on last line and commented pass
> entry in devfs.conf and rebooted.
> Could you place pass0/* entry in nonlast line of devfs.rules and find
> any difference.

Hah - I've found the bug!

devfs.rules has to end with an empty line, otherwise the last entry is being 
ignored at boot time (but strangely enough, not when doing an /etc/rc.d/devfs 
restart):

An entry like

add path 'pass*' mode 660 group wheel user mark<EOF>

will be ignored, whereas

add path 'pass*' mode 660 group wheel user mark\n
<EOF>

will be honoured.

Well, this bug should be easy to fix - but as stated above, it's quite odd 
that a restart works.

Regards,
Mark
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