Re: toolchain/45694: update by ./build.sh doesn't complete because of unwriteable /dev

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/45694; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/45694: update by ./build.sh doesn't complete because
 of unwriteable /dev
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:07:46 -0500

 On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:00:06 +0000 (UTC)
 David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  fdesc implements /dev/fd. It should have a man page; that is a bug.
 >  (There is actually an fd(4) page for /dev/fd, but it makes no mention
 >  of fdesc. This also raises the question of whether the floppy driver
 >  has a man page.)
 
 However there seems to be mount_fdesc(8)/fd(4) and fdc(4); I agree that
 mount_fdesk(8) should refer to fd(4) and vice-versa.
 
 Interestingly, on a system of mine where I checked, /dev/fd contains
 files dating from 2004, and fdesc is unmounted; I guess that if it's
 not obsolete, it's probably a functionality very rarely expected by
 applications?
 -- 
 Matt