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

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2015, bch wrote:

> I filed a bug for this some time ago (ref:
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=49894) that
> can now be closed.

Done.  Thanks for providing the pointer.


> Additionally I've got an outstanding bug w/ filemon whereby actually
> using filemon renders env(1) (ref:
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=50309)
> unusable -- am I the only person experiencing this ? If I am, then
> there are two issues
>
>  1) I need to adjust my code
>  2) filemon is too brittle, regardless of my code

I will have a look.  I had a similar problem yesterday, where I was
unable to 'cvs update' my source tree from the shell after having run
a filemon test program.  (It complained about being unable to start
ssh, which could well have resulted from a corrupt environment.)


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