From e3d24c1a5f14f87bf69fbcfe839482864ddeeecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:42:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Partially revert r1.12, in which a warnx() if the device is
 not a character device is changed to an errx().  This unnecessarily
 compromises device independence.

---
 sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c b/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c
index 40ed0772eeb..aeae025b076 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c
+++ b/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.c
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
     if (!opt_N)
 	check_mounted(fname, sb.st_mode);
     if (!S_ISCHR(sb.st_mode))
-	errx(1, "%s is not a character device", fname);
+	warnx("warning: %s is not a character device", fname);
     memset(&bpb, 0, sizeof(bpb));
     if (opt_f) {
 	getstdfmt(opt_f, &bpb);