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-rw-r--r--perl-install/devices.pm3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/devices.pm b/perl-install/devices.pm
index 3ea25bc5e..84d112b5b 100644
--- a/perl-install/devices.pm
+++ b/perl-install/devices.pm
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ sub make($) {
}
-e $file and return $file; #- assume nobody takes fun at creating files named as device
- my ($type, $major, $minor) = entry($_);
+ my ($type, $major, $minor) = eval { entry($_) };
+ $@ and die "unknown device $_ (caller is " . join(":", caller()) . ")";
#- make a directory for this inode if needed.
mkdir dirname($file), 0755;