On Fri, 11 May 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew > Jacob writes: > > > > > >On Thu, 10 May 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> Just installed recent -CURRENT on my PC, and noticed strange things: > >> > >> 1) If I don't have devfs line in /etc/fstab, why DEVFS mount is still > >> happening on /dev, and where? > > > >Somewhat wierdly and unobviously, it's init that does the magic. > > this is basically because it is one line to do it in /sbin/init, > but about 100 to do it in the kernel. > > Blame the poor design of mount(2) (and ask Adrian when he fixes > it :-) It must be the excellent design of mount(2) that makes it so easy to do things with it where it can be used :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
