Re: /dev/null doesn't get created

From: Jiawei Ye (leafy7382_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/03/04

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    Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:22:28 +0800
    To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
    
    

    On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:38:44 -0400, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
    > It's a preference thing. I pretty much never use modules myself (things
    > compiled into the kernel are more optimized, mutex and atomic ops are inlined
    > rather than function calls for example) unless doing development on a device
    > driver in which case I leave the device driver as a single module.
    >
    > --
    > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
    > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
    Quite a number of modules are loaded on-the-fly, is there any
    particular reason for io/null/mem not to be?

    Jiawei Ye
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