On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:39:27PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote: > Quoting Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org): > > > There's your bug. MAKEDEV creates devices in the current directory, so it should > > be called like: > > (cd /dev && /sbin/MAKEDEV ...) > > Shouldn't the MAKEDEV script do that (cd /dev) automagically? > What's the use of creating devices in the current directory? so it can be used in boot-floppies and debootstrap builds among other things. i think MAKEDEV has always behaved that way traditionally anyway, its normally installed in /dev and called by the admin as cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV whatever -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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