On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:

>   | Use "mkdir -p" instead of "mkdir" to create /dev/altq
>
> Is "-p" truly necessary?
>
> The entry being created is "altq", not "/dev/altq", so -p is
> superfluous, which is why I removed it in an earlier commit.

Without this fix:

  ROOT dhcp118:/dev> sh MAKEDEV all
  mkdir: altq: File exists

Martti

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