From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 8 0:13:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from astralblue.com (adsl-209-76-108-39.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [209.76.108.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0808158E8 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:13:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@astralblue.com) Received: from localhost (ab@localhost) by astralblue.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA04603 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:13:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@astralblue.com) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:13:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene M. Kim" To: FreeBSD-current Mailing List Subject: Status of DEVFS? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Yesterday I decided to convert to DEVFS, compiled a kernel with `option DEVFS' and added the fstab line necessary to mount it on /dev. Most things work fine, but I get some subtle errors like permission denied on chown()ing ptys, failure to add entry to /dev with errno 17 (maybe double registration?), and some devices not appearing in /dev (I have to edit rc.devfs so that it can make some symbolic links from /dev.bak :-p). (Nothing fatal happens though; I can use the machine as before) What is the current status of DEVFS? Is this still a `good feature to have but oh well...'-sort of thing so it is not supported by many drivers, or is some serious effort on track to round the sharp edges and make it usable? TIA, Eugene -- Eugene M. Kim "Is your music unpopular? Make it popular; make music which people like, or make people who like your music." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message