The following reply was made to PR kern/30250; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/30250: mknod VNOVAL weirdness
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:14:43 -0700

 On May 16, 2005, at 11:53 PM, yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp wrote:
 
 > System: NetBSD kaeru 3.99.3 NetBSD 3.99.3 (build.kaeru.xen) #83:  
 > Sun May 8 08:26:40 JST 2005 takashi@kaeru:/home/takashi/work/kernel/ 
 > build.kaeru.xen i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 >
 >> Description:
 >>
 >     see below.
 >
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 >>
 >     # mknod xxx b 4095 1048575
 >     # ls -l xxx
 >     brw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0, 0 May 17 15:45 xxx
 >
 >> Fix:
 >>
 >     obsolete VNOVAL by introducing a mask member in vattr
 >     to indicate which members are valid.
 
 Can I suggest taking a look at what Mac OS X Tiger has done in this  
 regard?  Hopefully the xnu sources have been posted on the Darwin web  
 site.
 
 -- thorpej