Well, here are my conclusions. 1) The manpage for devfs.rules should mention that you have to set
devfs_system_ruleset="yourruleset" in /etc/rc.conf . I didn't see it anywhere. 2) I have transferred all the rules in /etc/devfs.conf to /etc/devfs.rules, because I don't like to have 2 solutions for one task and because of the race condition mentioned in this list. 3) There is one kind of thing I cannot do in /etc/devfs.rules, creating links. So I am still doing this in /etc/devfs.conf (links don't cause race conditions anyway, I hope). One would think that "link ttyU0 pilot" would simply be translated to "ln -s /dev/ttyU0 /dev/pilot" which would simply create the link and it would work as soon as a ttyU0 device (my PDA) is there. But instead it checks weather the device exists (of course it doesn't since I didn't press the hotsync button during boot) and omits the creation of the link. So either the behaviour of /etc/rc.d/devfs has to be changed or it has to be dumped entirely and /sbin/devfs has to implement a way to create links (the solution I would prefer). - Dominic _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
