From owner-cvs-all Sun May 13 18:26:53 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id EC27037B422; Sun, 13 May 2001 18:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:26:49 -0700 From: Eric Melville To: Greg Lehey Cc: Kris Kennaway , Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c) Message-ID: <20010513182649.A51972@FreeBSD.org> References: <200105132052.f4DKqfo39754@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010513141237.A63235@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010514074016.N86168@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513151500.A27277@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010514075417.A88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513152842.A28203@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010513181354.A46193@FreeBSD.org> <20010514105122.G88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010514105122.G88359@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:51:22AM +0930 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'd prefer another name: rm. > > There are two issues here. Firstly, in the past it has always been > possible to remove device nodes with rm(1). If we want to keep this > functionality, we should not change the way we do it. > > On the other hand, though, is that what we want to do? destroy_dev is > only half the picture. How do you recreate it? mknod has effectively > been consigned to the scrap heap. I'm sure phk will come up with some > valid arguments when he wakes up. At first I was going to add this in to rm(1), but I thought people would object to that. Apparently I got it backwards, I'll do as you suggest. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message