From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 27 9:17:14 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 8805C37B401; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E3143E3B; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8RGHBPQ006277; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g8RGHBsJ006276; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200209271617.g8RGHBsJ006276@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: John Baldwin , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ttys patch - any objections? References: <20020927.011111.127772150.imp@bsdimp.com> <15764.31551.728376.977637@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> 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 Yah, that makes a whole lot of sense to me too. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message