Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:09:42 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what is devfs? Message-ID: <19990921000942.56103@hydrogen.fircrest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990920185326.6478M-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:54:12PM -0700 References: <37E6DDDC.403569A5@butya.kz> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990920185326.6478M-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer scribbled this message on Sep 20: > On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Boris Popov wrote: > > > "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > Why not to create a simple 'devfs' device ? devfsd can sleep at > > polling it and devfs device itself can provide hooks in the kernel to > > register all important events and pass them to devfsd. > > what supplies the (arbitrarily assigned) major number to that device? > (chicken-egg) I thought the whole point of devfs is to ELIMINATE major numbers so that they mean nothing? you wouldn't need a major number for the devfs device becuase you have to be running devfs to use it! -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 408 975 9651 Cu Networking "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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