Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:49:36 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: devfs patch v21 available |
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Richard Guenther writes: > On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Hi, all. Version 21 of my devfs patch is now available > [...] > > Please, would people give this a final thrashing. I want to submit > > this to Linus ASAP. Unless there are outstanding issues, I'm happy to > > see it included in the mainstream kernel now. > > It works for me (TM), apart from one bug and some (minor) flaws: > > - The bug: > /dev # ln -s ttyS1 mouse > /dev # rm mouse > /dev # ls mouse > /bin/ls: mouse: no such file or directory > /dev # ln -s ttyS0 mouse > ln: cannot symbolic link 'ttyS0' to 'mouse': file exists > /dev # ls mouse > /bin/ls: mouse: no such file or directory > > linking with ttyS1 again succeeds.
OK, I've found the bug causing this. I'll send you (privately so as not to clog the list) a new patch which fixes this.
Regards,
Richard....
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