The following reply was made to PR install/37498; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/37498: bug in MAKEDEV
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:48:38 +0000

 On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:35:00PM +0000, dlagno@rambler.ru wrote:
 > >Fix:
 > in src/etc/MAKEDEV.tmpl replace
 > 
 >     sh "$0.local" $opts -s all | \
 >     while read l; do
 >             count_nodes=$((count_nodes + 1))
 >     done
 > 
 > with
 > 
 >     count_nodes=$(($count_nodes + $(sh "$0.local" $opts -s all | wc -l)))
 > 
 
 or:
 	oifs="$IFS"
 	IFS='\n'
 	set -- `sh "$0.local" $opts -s all`
 	count_nodes=$((count_nodes + $#))
 	IFS="$oifs"
 (Except that getting \n into IFS isn;t that easy)
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk