From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 27 8:38:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F3637B401; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E7143ECF; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29514; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:38:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g8RFbZG01995; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:37:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15764.31551.728376.977637@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:37:35 -0400 (EDT) To: John Baldwin Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ttys patch - any objections? In-Reply-To: References: <20020927.011111.127772150.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message