/usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

Andrew Lankford lankfordandrew at charter.net
Sun Oct 28 09:54:13 PDT 2007


Thbbt!  I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV.  Wish I could disable 
  that "feature".  Oh well.  I'll delete it all and rebuild it again if 
needed.  Thanks!

Andrew Lankford

Danny Braniss wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:37:45PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote:
>>> Thanks for replying, but once again I've miscommunicated the issue.  I 
>>> meant that MAKEDEV.8 is in /usr/src/share/man/man8/, and the
>>> modification time is Oct 13th, recent, which suggests to me that it's still 
>>> in the 7.0-BETA1 cvs tree.
>> And you're very much correct:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8
> 
> how about reading what ity says? it might be very educational :-)
> 
> NAME
>      MAKEDEV -- old script for creating device nodes
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>      The MAKEDEV script was deprecated by devfs(5) and removed from FreeBSD
>      after devfs(5) became mandatory.
> 
> 
> 
> 



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