From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 11 20:52:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4984C37B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:52:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: by relay.butya.kz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2963928840; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:52:25 +0600 (ALMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.butya.kz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1489E28649; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:52:25 +0600 (ALMT) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:52:24 +0600 (ALMT) From: Boris Popov To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Alfred Perlstein , mjacob@feral.com, Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" , current@FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey Subject: Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS? In-Reply-To: <46116.984342191@critter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20010311121337.J18351@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > > >What's up with devfs not gc'ing itself? Ie, after a directory > >becomes empty it seems to still exist within the devfs namespace > >instead of disappearing. > > That was a deliberate decision, removing a directory(-inode) which > might have a valid vnode is kind of a nasty thing to attempt. Err, "might" ? These things are well defined by VFS interface. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message