David O'Brien wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:27:07PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
> > Or just settle for a more intuitive solution:
> > MAKEDEV acd2 creates /dev/acd2
> > MAKEDEV 2 acd creates /dev/acd[01]
> > which would allow for "MAKEDEV 64 da" and "MAKEDEV 256 pty"
>
> I agree with this syntax and after sending my message to you, was sitting
> there thinking "MAKEDEV <num_of_devs> <dev_name>" would make a really
> nice clear syntax. If you can get BDE's buy-in and other BSD
> traditionalists I think this would be great.
The good part of this solution is that it's backwards compatible.
If the first argument is an integer and the second a device name
without a suffix we do the new thing, if not we revert to the
traditional behaviour.
bde: what do you think?
Cheers,
Jeroen
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