Subject: Re: Unified MAKEDEV
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/15/2003 22:34:57
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:00:22PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <200310152049.h9FKnWWH029888@s102-n054.tele2.cz>,
> Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>
> Looks nice. You might want to take a look at the shell functions
> I added in my implementation of the same, and incorporate them
> in your MAKEDEV.tmpl to speed things up. I posted it a while ago
> here, but I can send you another copy.
It is also worth finding out whether you have netbsd's mknod.
The latest versions will do the chown/chgrp/chmod for you.
(but remember that the user/group name lookups can get expensive).
Howver all those changes can now be done in 1 place!
David
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