Re: CVS commit: basesrc/etc/etc.i386

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp@localhost>]

Hi.

In message <20020211233313.J20607%wasabisystems.com@localhost>
        on Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:33:13 +1100,
        Luke Mewburn <lukem%wasabisystems.com@localhost> wrote:
>   | Log Message:
>   | Use "mkdir -p" instead of "mkdir" to create /dev/altq
> 
> Is "-p" truly necessary?
> 
> The entry being created is "altq", not "/dev/altq", so -p is
> superfluous, which is why I removed it in an earlier commit.
I guess that it prevents error on existing "/dev/altq" directory.
But if so, MAKEDEV for fd(4) is more simple solution.

fd)
        if $nofdesc; then
                rm -f fd/*
                mkdir fd 2>/dev/null
...

Cheers.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca%sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp@localhost>