On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 05:42:38PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > I have a box running 6.0-STABLE as of 10 Nov last year. > > Previously I had created device nodes for /dev/random within chroot > environments (this was for building and testing openssl). However now they > don't work. I am left with the strange situation that device nodes from > devfs work, but seemingly indentical device nodes created with mknod don't. > > # dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=8 | hexdump > 8+0 records in > 8+0 records out > 8 bytes transferred in 0.000070 secs (114131 bytes/sec) > 0000000 6eaf 1d71 513b 8d8c > 0000008 > # mknod /tmp/test1 c 0 24 root:wheel > # mknod /tmp/test2 c 24 0 root:wheel > # chmod 666 /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2 > # ls -l /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 24 Mar 15 17:45 /tmp/test1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 24, 0 Mar 15 17:45 /tmp/test2 > # dd if=/tmp/test1 bs=1 count=8 | hexdump > dd: /tmp/test1: Operation not supported > # dd if=/tmp/test2 bs=1 count=8 | hexdump > dd: /tmp/test2: Operation not supported > > Why do my lovingly hand-created device nodes fail with "Operation not > supported"?
man devfs; you don't (can't) create device nodes by hand any more. Kris
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