Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 22:25:44 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... Message-ID: <21984.896505944@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 21:14:32 PDT." <199805300414.VAA00432@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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> You could make a strong case for having mknod ignore the (dev) argument > and just look the name up in the reference devfs copy, and then > duplicate it at the path given (presuming that's inside a devfs). Well, the way I figured it, devfs is going to have a mechanism for creating aliases anyway (for ln and friends), so an attempt to mknod something would result in devfs doing a reverse-lookup on the major/minor pair and creating an alias for the entry found. If none is found at all, you treat the mknod as a bogus operation and punt it. At last, a version of mknod which checks all of its arguments! :-) :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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