site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Dec 12, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Alexander v. Below wrote: under OS X 10.5, when I install a file system device with -- Steve Checkoway "Anyone who says that the solution is to educate the users hasn't ever met an actual user." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com procDevice = devfs_make_node(myDevice, DEVFS_CHAR, UID_ROOT, GID_WHEEL, 0666, path) where "path" is an actual path (like foo/bar/myDevice), then the device gets created in /dev/fo/ba/myDevice. This does not happen in 10.4 Is this just a plain bug, or am I doing something wrong? This has come up a number of times on the list recently. As I recall, this is both not supported and an off-by-one error introduced when switching from some standard library function to some supposedly "safe" version which was supposed to prevent these sorts of errors. See the list archive for more details. smime.p7s