Re: devfs patch v24 available

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:15:50 +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)
>
> :( (can no longer reboot/halt via shutdown...)

OK, I think I finally see what may be causing this. There was a
persistence bug with fifos. Please grab devfs-patch-v25 which I've
just announced on linux-kernel.

Regards,

Richard....

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