Re: Should MAKEDEV be able to create /dev/filemon ?

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2015, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 12:16:33PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > While trying to test some recent changes to filemon(4), I discovered
> > that not only does a default system installation not create a
> > /dev/filemon but the supplied /dev/MAKEDEV script doesn't even know
> > how to create it!
> >
> > It should be fairly easy to add a new entry
> >
> > 	filemon)
> > 		mkdev filemon c 202 666
> > 		;;
> >
> > to the big case statement?
>
> Funny, I have this in my local tree (but can not remember testing it).

I'll be happy to test on amd64


> Index: MAKEDEV.tmpl
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/etc/MAKEDEV.tmpl,v
> retrieving revision 1.176
> diff -u -p -r1.176 MAKEDEV.tmpl
> --- MAKEDEV.tmpl	8 Nov 2015 23:23:30 -0000	1.176
> +++ MAKEDEV.tmpl	21 Nov 2015 10:32:52 -0000
> @@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ all)
> 	makedev dk8 dk9 dk10 dk11 dk12 dk13 dk14 dk15
> 	makedev ccd0 ccd1 ccd2 ccd3
> 	makedev cgd0 cgd1 cgd2 cgd3
> +	makedev filemon
> 	makedev fss0 fss1 fss2 fss3
> 	makedev md0 md1
> 	makedev raid0 raid1 raid2 raid3 raid4 raid5 raid6 raid7
> @@ -2164,6 +2165,10 @@ dtrace)
> 	mkdev dtrace/dtrace c %dtrace_chr% 0 600
> 	;;
>
> +filemon)
> +	mkdev filemon c %filemon_chr% 0 666
> +	;;
> +
> fw[0-9]*)
> 	unit=${i#fw}
> 	for j in 0 1 2 3

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