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Re: With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?

From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:40:22 -0400

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:57:55AM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> A problem with MAKEDEV is, that it places the MAKEDEV *binary* into
> /dev. This is a really bad place for it; devfs under 2.4 removed it and
> buildsystems which need a special /dev will remove it also.

Unix tradition is the essential reason for this. Nothing more.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?
  - From: Nalin Dahyabhai

References:
- With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?
  - From: David T Hollis
- Re: With udev, are dev and MAKEDEV still required?
  - From: Enrico Scholz

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