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That's why FreeBSD doesn't use mknod(8) - or device numbers - at all. You can kind of work around this obsolete idea instead - that's what Linux is doing - but
by trasz 5y ago
That's why FreeBSD doesn't use mknod(8) - or device numbers - at all. You can kind of work around this obsolete idea instead - that's what Linux is doing - but it's not optimal.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoWait, how can you do it without any device numbers? Are they binding drivers directly to file names?
- trasz 5y agoPrecisely. That's one of the reasons devfs isn't optional in FreeBSD. (Note that FreeBSD devfs is very different from the one that's been there in Linux years ago, and doesn't have its deficiencies.)