MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken buildingfortunes ) )

[Andrzej Bialecki]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> 
> > So how about /usr/sbin/chown -> /sbin/chown so that MAKEDEV works with
> > just the root file system mounted?   
> 
> As one who just got his ass bitten by this, I would vote yes.

On a related subject: don't you think it's high time to end up this
madness with MAKEDEV being a shell script, and reimplement it in C? Today,
MAKEDEV uses about 10 external programs, it's inflexible and complicated,
but the task it's doing could be relatively easily ported to C plus config
file. Have you ever tried to use it in nonstandad location, or on a
minimal system? The end result is usually an unpleasant surprise...

Andrzej Bialecki

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