From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 17 1:25:30 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B18215630 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 01:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA35027; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:25:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: "David Schwartz" Cc: "Brian Somers" , "Poul-Henning Kamp" , "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys conf.h References: <000001bee856$15352af0$021d85d1@youwant.to> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 17 Aug 1999 10:25:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: "David Schwartz"'s message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:13:23 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "David Schwartz" writes: > I'm sure I'm missing something here, but can't you make things like > /dev/vty a sort of 'magic symlink' that acts as if it were a symlink to the > 'next' device? That way, every open would give a new device, and > fork/dup/close would work right automatically. You still need numbered nodes, or a lot of stuff will stop working (init, X, talk, write, wall, w...) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message