From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 7 13:47:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2FB37B403 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.136.187.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.136.187]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA11369; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BC0BF69.1E231F9D@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:47:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cloned open support References: <1359.1002473810@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Uhm, Brian... > > We have cloned devices already... > > What exactly is it that you want to implement ? Probably per open instance data; he was working with the vmware2 code, wasn't he? Or was that someone else? Per open instance data is needed to support multiple instances of vmware running simultaneously, since it does not know to ask for sequentially increasing device names. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message