[441] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Yoav's emacs problem... and pcvt.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jan 20 14:16:48 1995
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jan 1995 04:24:03 EST."
<9501200924.AA16142@pickled-herring.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:16:06 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Incidently, WRT pcvt, Yoav mentions that the /dev/ttyv* didn't get
> created. Greg, they're not supposed to be created by default (and
> indeed are not in MAKEDEV all), as pcvt is not part of the OS.
> Thus, your install script needs to perform a
> MAKEDEV ttyv0 ttyv1 ttyv2...
It already does this; the problem yoav and sdfranks had was that
/dev/lkm already existed, and my script took this as a hint that it
had already made the devices. I've removed this check, so it
shouldn't be a problem for anyone any more.
