On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:02:58AM +0000, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > After upgrading a 6-CURRENT machine from a 5 day old kernel to one cvsuped > just a few hours ago, special files zero and null created through mknod no > longer works. > > # mknod zerotest c 2 12 > # chmod 666 zerotest > # cat zerotest > /dev/null > cat: zerotest: Socket operation on non-socket > > Could this be related to the vfs stuff Poul-Henning Kamp is working with? I'm pretty sure this is by design - see phk's commits and related discussion. Use devfs for device nodes. Kris
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