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- Readme file for MAKEDEV-C:
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- MAKEDEV is a program to create the special file entries found in /dev.
- MAKEDEV-C is a compiled binary that runs from a config file,
- /etc/devinfo. The config file is intended to be fairly human-readable,
- as well as machine-readable.
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- New in release 1.6.1:
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- Correct permissions on /dev/random and /dev/urandom. This has security
- implications.
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- New in release 1.6:
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- The configuration files have been updated to reflect kernel 2.x, and
- have thus grown enormously. Older releases of MAKEDEV-C will overflow
- on this release's devinfo file.
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- New in release 1.5:
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- Configuration files (devinfo and makedev.cfg) are now located only in
- /etc, or /usr/local/etc for devinfo.local.
- Several bug fixes, both to the code and to devinfo.
- The supplied makefile is now vaguely useful.
- Some testing options are now not compiled in by default.
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- New in release 1.4.1:
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- Substantial updates to DEVINFO. Most notably:
- - hdc and hdd are now the drives on the 2nd IDE controller.
- This is NOT how it used to be, nor is it how the shell MAKEDEV
- does it, but it's what the kernel source indicates is right.
- - SCSI tapes were totally messed up in the last release.
- - New and more appropriate QIC device names.
- - Assorted fixes. (See DEVINFO itself for more details.)
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- Some changes to the sample MAKEDEV.cfg:
- - added a class "system" (root.system, mode 660)
- - do not omit hdc and hdd by default, as they now mean
- something more useful than they used to.
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- New in release 1.4:
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- First general public release.
- Wrote man pages.
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- Release 1.3:
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- First tentative limited-distribution release.
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