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Date:      Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:47:37 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cloned open support
Message-ID:  <3BC0BF69.1E231F9D@mindspring.com>
References:  <1359.1002473810@critter.freebsd.dk>

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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

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