Re: devfs patch v24 available

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 19:42:49 +1000


Richard Guenther writes:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > Hi, all. Version 24 of my devfs patch is now available from:
> > http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/kernel-patches.html
>
> "mknod initctl p" does no longer work (worked with v20) - init says:
> open("/dev/initctl", O_WRONLY) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)

Are you sure you've got v24? I'm running v24 (of course:-) and I can
do:

# mknod /dev/initctl p
# cat /dev/initctl &
# echo "hello pipe" > /dev/initctl

and get no errors. I don't see why it would work for me and not for
you. Can you try the same test (i.e. just do things manually)?

Regards,

Richard....

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