Re: An idea on devfs vs. udev

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Tue Nov 08 2005 - 17:14:26 EST


Matt Mackall wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:51:01AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:41:32AM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:23:09PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:18:12AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:

But then to make matters worse, there is this "sample.sh" file. UGH!
It's a bit of shell code exported by the kernel.
#!/bin/sh
mknod /dev/hda b 3 0

That's just a "joke" patch that is only in the -mm tree, as it gets
pulled in from my tree. It's not in mainline, and will never go there.

Perhaps you can drop this horror now that Halloween has passed.

Heh. But why? Is it causing problems for anyone?


Someone else might take your joke seriously. Or worse yet, imitate it.
See C++.

It probably should be rewritten in C for efficiency.

;-) if you didn't guess...

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