Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > What is "/dev" on the Hurd? Debootstrap does it as a tarball because > MAKEDEV is way too slow to run during an install, because (a) it needs > things like /dev/null and such available in the chroot to actually > run dpkg and kin, and (b) nothing else populates /dev for you. (a)'s > obviously still necessary, but for all I know /dev might get populated > by a "devfs"-ish translator, and come essentially for free.
On the Hurd, /dev is just a bunch of passive translators. Currently we just run a script that sets them all for you; indeed, we do this by MAKEDEV which is the locus of remembering in source code the correct passive translator specs for all the /dev nodes. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
