Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:57:52AM +0000, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> 
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: jdolecek
> Date:         Mon Dec 15 08:57:52 UTC 2003
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/etc: MAKEDEV.local MAKEDEV.tmpl
> 
> Log Message:
> add /rescue to the PATH to find chown if /usr is not available yet
> XXX chown should either be moved or we should not depend on it here

If we could rely on NetBSD (current) mknod, then mknod can set the
perms and uid/gid.  However the uname->uid and gname->gid translations
are expensive - so you want to use the numeric form (-u#0).

I'm not even sure that MAKEDEV works with non-netbsd mknod - the major/minor
split is very OS dependant.

Another option (mentioned before, and now possible to implement) is to
pipe the requests into pax.

        David

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