On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2000-Apr-14 22:49:40 +1000, Steve Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made
> >the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well..
> >_ALL_. *shrug*
>
> What do you define as `all'? Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide
> SCSI controllers, each with 15 disks - that's da0..da119. I might
> have a big shell (or similar) server that needs a few thousand PTYs.
> I could have all sorts of other wierd hardware. "MAKEDEV all" has to
> draw the line somewhere.
Sure. What's the point of having both std and all, though? How much does
it hurt to have a few extra device files kicking around?
David
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