Subject: Re: devices in /dev
To: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/2005 20:22:34 
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:45:51AM +0700, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> Of course you need to create [/dev special files] manually :)
> /sbin/init does not create any devices.

From NetBSD-2.0 src/sbin/init.c 

        /* Run the makedev script to create devices */
        switch ((pid = fork())) {
        case 0: 
                dup2(2, 1);     /* Give the script stdout */
                if (chdir("/dev") == 0)
                        (void)execl(INIT_BSHELL, "sh",
                            mfile[0].len ? "./MAKEDEV" : "/etc/MAKEDEV",
                            "init", NULL);

What is going on here?

Ben