On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:15:02PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
> > > > Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've
> > > > never encountered that kind of syntax before, and I can't see that it's
> > > > documented anywhere at all. Certainly, MAKEDEV itself (in it's
> > > > comments) treats cd* just like all the others, specifying that the number
> > > > following is a unit number, and *not* a quantity. I don't know when this
> > > > happened, but it's surely not obvious. Not one word in the handbook,
> > > > either.
> > >
> > > *shrug* This is the only rationality I could think of. Obviously, this
> > > breaks POLA, so it should be changed (with ample warning).
> >
> > As for ample warning: I've seen MAKEDEVs display a list of the devices
> > they are creating. I think the Tru64 version does this. I myself think this
> > is a good behaviour (and hope people won't start yelling 'bloat' for once)
>
> I'd like to hack about a bit on MAKEDEV, but I was wondering, does
> sysinstall, in any way, use MAKEDEV? I *don't* want to mess with
> sysinstall!
:) I guess the only way to find out short of studying sysinstall source code
is asking Jordan.
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