On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Ben Harris wrote:
> While I think you're right that MAKEDEV could use some work, I'm not sure
> that extending mknod is the way to go.  In particular, remember that in a
> diskless environment, MAKEDEV usually gets run on the NFS server, which may
> well not be running NetBSD, and even if it is running NetBSD is likely to be
> a different architecture and version from the system whose /dev is being
> populated.  MAKEDEV isn't as portable as it could be, but making it even
> less portable would be a bad idea IMO.

Seconded.
And there's also mtree...


 - Hubert

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