> "Garrett D'Amore" <gdam...@sun.com> wrote: > > > And yes, your case is rather an oddball -- the > results would differ in a > > 32-bit environment vs. a 64-bit one. I'm not too > thrilled about *that* > > either. I actually think rsync probably has very > little business trying > > to copy over special nodes. (In retrospect, I > wonder if mknod(2) should > > be deprecated. With devfs, nobody should be > creating special files > > anymore....) > > mknod() is part of the POSIX standard, you cannot > easily deprecate it. > Using mknod() with something different from S_IFIFO > is non-portable. > > Note that as long as the NFS filesystem includes > support for special nodes, > you need to be able to create special nodes on a NFS > server.
Right, like for net boot (running diskless). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
