Re: Should MAKEDEV be able to create /dev/filemon ?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 12:16:33PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> While trying to test some recent changes to filemon(4), I discovered
> that not only does a default system installation not create a
> /dev/filemon but the supplied /dev/MAKEDEV script doesn't even know
> how to create it!
> 
> It should be fairly easy to add a new entry
> 
> 	filemon)
> 		mkdev filemon c 202 666
> 		;;
> 
> to the big case statement?

Funny, I have this in my local tree (but can not remember testing it).

Martin

Index: MAKEDEV.tmpl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/etc/MAKEDEV.tmpl,v
retrieving revision 1.176
diff -u -p -r1.176 MAKEDEV.tmpl
--- MAKEDEV.tmpl	8 Nov 2015 23:23:30 -0000	1.176
+++ MAKEDEV.tmpl	21 Nov 2015 10:32:52 -0000
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ all)
 	makedev dk8 dk9 dk10 dk11 dk12 dk13 dk14 dk15
 	makedev ccd0 ccd1 ccd2 ccd3
 	makedev cgd0 cgd1 cgd2 cgd3
+	makedev filemon
 	makedev fss0 fss1 fss2 fss3
 	makedev md0 md1
 	makedev raid0 raid1 raid2 raid3 raid4 raid5 raid6 raid7
@@ -2164,6 +2165,10 @@ dtrace)
 	mkdev dtrace/dtrace c %dtrace_chr% 0 600
 	;;
 
+filemon)
+	mkdev filemon c %filemon_chr% 0 666
+	;;
+
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