[jwhat]

Hi SGI/IRIX'ers,

best wishes for 2024 , may the SGI/IRIX expiry gremlin stay away for another 12 months ;-)

Heading toward end of Christmas holidays... and I have re-looked at FreeBSD Ports on IRIX, that I had to put aside to focus on main work project.

Since starting there have been a couple of new upstream bmake releases and so I did regression test on this to make sure current version still works on IRIX.

This uncovered some build problems which I am working to get fixed.

It also brought to focus the on going problem that FreeBSD Ports has with /dev/null clobbering.

So now I need to remove and re-create /dev/null special file.

I have tried to do:
- MAKEDEV null
- MAKEDEV /dev/null
- mknod /dev/null c 1 3

but these either fail or do not create a /dev/null that behaves correctly
- ie when I do "cat /dev/null | od" I should see empty dump as cat /dev/null should return EOF

Can IRIX guru please advise how I can correctly re-create /dev/null ?

Thanks in advance.

Cheer from Oz,


jwhat/John

[jpstewart]

- mknod /dev/null c 1 3

That should be 'mknod /dev/null c 1 2' on IRIX. You've created a duplicate of /dev/mmem instead. (Whatever that is!)

[jwhat]

Thanks jpstewart,

that did the trick !

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John.