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Re: Ken Raeburn: Solaris athena-9.0 beta update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed May 23 10:17:54 2001
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:17:37 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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In-Reply-To: <200105231344.JAA01819@riff-raff.mit.edu>; from zacheiss@MIT.EDU on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:44:53AM -0400
Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> wrote on Wed, 23 May 2001
at 09:44:53 -0400 in <200105231344.JAA01819@riff-raff.mit.edu>:
> It would appear that devfsadm is reading the value from the running
> kernel; it certainly isn't consulting name_to_major for the information.
I believe that's correct.
I have a vague recolletion that it may be possible to force the kernel
to reload the name_to_sysnum file, and that at one point afs did this.
I can't seem to find the code in front of me. It probably involves
a trivial loadable kernel module, which may not be where we want to go.
--jhawk
