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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ttys patch - any objections?
Message-ID:  <15764.31551.728376.977637@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020927113547.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020927.011111.127772150.imp@bsdimp.com> <XFMail.20020927113547.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin writes:
 > > Why?  If someone hasn't done a MAKEDEV of the device, it is just as
 > > dead.  MAKEDEV + kill -1 1 will bring it back if they didn't
 > > (untested, but it is the normal way to do these things).
 > 
 > Agreed, that's why I said "maybe" b/c it would be preserving the
 > behavior for the !devfs case.  I agree that I think it should actually
 > always just give up if the device file doesn't exist.  So do people
 > agree with this change?

Yes!

Thanks,

Drew

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