From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 23:25:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00311 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 23:25:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00302 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 23:25:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29540; Fri, 29 May 1998 23:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Mike Smith cc: Eivind Eklund , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 21:38:19 PDT." <199805300438.VAA00666@antipodes.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:26:02 -0700 Message-ID: <29532.896509562@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Uh, doing a reverse lookup on the major/minor pair would be pretty > unuseful. If you've just deleted the device, you have no idea what > it's (dev) is, so you can't possibly supply them as arguments. Eh? You still have an instance in your "template" mount that you can match up. I also _know_ that majors and minors are going away - I'm not trying to argue for their long-term preservation, simply that they continue to have as much "meaning" as possible during the transition period (which I would expect to last as long as 1 maybe 2 years before people are entirely accustomed to the new model). - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message