svn commit: r365643 - head/bin/cp

[Edward Tomasz Napierała]

> On 25 Sep 2020, at 19:12, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

[..]

> (A question that occurs to me:  could it be that the files you've seen
> got created at shutdown after devfs was unmounted, rather than at
> startup?  I don't know enough about the shutdown sequence to know
> whether that's possible.)

Thing is, if you unmount /dev, you are revoking
all the device nodes, including your ttys and disk device nodes.  You wouldn’t be able to properly shutdown afterwards.