From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 18 11:33:33 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (picasso.transbay.net [209.133.53.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3F114A2B; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01258; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910181825.LAA01258@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: You gotta be kidding .... Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:25:02 PDT." <199910181825.LAA69079@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:25:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Instead, the appropriate way is to turn off user level blockdev > access entirely. This is the conclusion that was made weeks ago > when you first started your rampage to blow away block devices. A > time table was also proposed at that time and I committed a sysctl > to implement it (which you attempted to remove two weeks ago, which > led to blowup #2). That's what this basically does; it just shortcuts the the old block device entries to the character device to avoid violating POLA, so that people can experiment with life on a system with nothing that behaves like a "block device". -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message