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SubjectRe: devfs patch v21 available
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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