On Thu, 16 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
>
> > Is there a reason debian does not ship with /dev/random and /dev/urandom
> > mknodded? (mknod /dev/random c 1 8 ; mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9 and they work
> > fine however)
>
> No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated
> MAKEDEV script from devices.tex.
>
>
> Guy
OK.
here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script:
--- MAKEDEV.old Fri May 17 00:29:18 1996
+++ MAKEDEV.new Fri May 17 00:31:26 1996
@@ -226,6 +226,8 @@
makedev zero c 1 5 $public
symlink core $procfs/kcore
makedev full c 1 7 $public
+ makedev random c 1 8 $public
+ makedev urandom c 1 9 $public
makedev ram b 1 1 $disk
makedev tty c 5 0 $tty
;;
I believe this is the only change necessary, as /dev/zero is mentioned
nowhere else in the script.
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