Subject: Re: MAKEDEV does no longer support overwriting device nodes
To: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/08/2004 23:55:28
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On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:02:07AM +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
  | Hi,
  |=20
  | with the old MAKEDEV script you could just use MAKEDEV all and it recre=
ated
  | all device nodes.
  |=20
  | Now, thats no longer possible.
  |=20
  | And no, the -f option doesn't fix that:
  |=20
  | mknod: console: File exists
  | mknod: constty: File exists
  | mknod: drum: File exists
  | mknod: kmem: File exists
  | mknod: mem: File exists
  | mknod: null: File exists
  | mknod: zero: File exists
  | [..]

Does running the script through 'sh -x' provide any insight?
Can you provide the command line that's failing?

(When I converted it to using TOOL_MKNOD I tested it on both
empty and populated dev directories...)

Cheers,
Luke.

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