On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:42:57 -0500 (EST)  der Mouse wrote:

> Or if devfs does support the above, it means the results won't survive
> the next reboot.

One of the design requirements for a devfs must be persistence, and
support for rename(), chown(), and chmod() (at least).

Personally, I'm not particularly in favour of MAKEDEV.  HP-UX 'insf'
is a lot smarter about making device files that actually match your
hardware.

What Solaris does is unspeakable. :-(

Giles