Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 09:10:11 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... Message-ID: <15536.896512211@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 06:55:08 %2B0200." <19980530065508.30647@follo.net>
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In message <19980530065508.30647@follo.net>, Eivind Eklund writes: >On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 08:52:01PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> > > E.g. I can shoot my foot off, but I can't sew it back on. :-) >> > >> > Yes, you can. You can mount another devfs and 'mv' a device from it >> > (or at least that's the way the specs read - I don't have devfs >> > enabled right now, so I can't test). >> >> That's utterly rude. :-) >> >> I hope you're not implying that this is going to be the accepted way >> for doing this in the future as well. Non-persistence is a big enough >> violation of POLA as it is, and not even being able to do mknod(2) >> operations on a devfs to replace missing entries would be a POLA >> catastrophe. > >OK, this can be solved in at least these three ways (neither of which >are pretty): The POLA way is: (4) use undelete(2) for what it is intended to do. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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