From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 5 13:24:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BAC37B9CA for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA19505 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:27:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA26259 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:24:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from holly.calldei.com (adsl-208-191-146-189.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [208.191.146.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866AA37B603 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA40198; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:20:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:20:35 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Terry Lambert , Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev Message-ID: <20000405152035.T27486@holly.calldei.com> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <200004042335.QAA12839@usr05.primenet.com> <20000404193257.N27486@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, April 05, 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Chris Costello writes: > > However, I don't think they will last forever, but will probably > > be supported up to a certain date before which "everybody has to > > MAKEDEV". I also do not think /dev/stdxxx will be considered "not > > useful", but they, as separate device nodes, are certainly "bloat" > > considering that fdesc can be used for this and is much simpler, so > > why not keep the /dev files and lose the kernel /dev/std* code (and > > put in the fdesc code). > > There is no "kernel /dev/std*" code. /dev/std* are simply fd nodes > with different names. They have the same major and minor numbers as > /dev/fd/[012]. It works just as well without that last sentence, then, and the point is generally the same. -- |Chris Costello |You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers. `--------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message