Andrew Apted wrote: > > The only problem I had with it was figuring out that you have to use > "mknod /foo/bar p" before running it. Now it wouldn't be too hard to > stat() the file, check if it exists, and call mknod(2) when it doesn't > (saving the user the hassle). Shall I code that up, or is there some > security or portability implications that make it a bad idea ? This sounds even nicer (provided there are no security problems) for people like me using devfs. So far I've found no need to tar up /dev and untar on the next boot. Everything that needs entries seems to either get them from devfs itself, or creates it's own when run (gpm already does what you are asking for /dev/gpmctrl).
