From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 18 10:10:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown3-3-80.adsl.one.net [216.23.29.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB4837B6B2; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:10:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA07763; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:17:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:17:52 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: Chris Costello Cc: Adrian Chadd , Boris Popov , Poul-Henning Kamp , Coleman Kane , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <20000718131752.A7742@cokane.yi.org> References: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000716230327.A48019@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000716230327.A48019@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:05:33AM -0400 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just to make sure we all know what's going on: Is someone currently tracking this thread and merging ideas into a write-up of what features DEVFS should have, as well as its implementation? I nice text would be fine to stick in the devfs tree to outline this, it would help facilitate work on this project. Chris Costello had the audacity to say: > > On Saturday, July 15, 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Ok, how about you, phk and julian throw up a list of what devfs should do? > > I am forming some ideas on how to solve the namespace and device cloning > > issues, we might make some forward work on this finally? :-) > > I'm not Boris, phk or Julian, but I'd like to add that it > should probably integrate the fdesc code. Especially since I'm > working on (and am soon going to hopefully commit) code to do > more relatively major repairs to fdesc[1]. > > -- > |Chris Costello > |[1] Removing all references to DTYPE_* macros. > `---------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message