Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:48:36 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning network interfaces Message-ID: <20010611114836.A29046@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010611143920.50008G-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:40:54PM -0400 References: <20010611092147.A7059@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010611143920.50008G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:40:54PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > An advantage to also supporting the ioctl interface is that it permits > interface cloning to be used on systems where devfs is not used, or where > there are parts of the system where devfs is unavailable (i.e., various > forms of chroots). I think devfs is cool and all, but given the existance > of fairly sensical non-devfs ways to do things, I'm tempted suggest > supporting them also. Actually, the currently implemented method doesn't required devfs. It's just somewhat easier to use in the devfs case because it doesn't require a mknod then. I think there are enough good reasons for following the NetBSD example that's I'll probalby do it. I'm currently trying to figure out how they implemented it. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7JRKDXY6L6fI4GtQRAoTmAJ9kSVYezDgFtmbPj8J814SGIbSCxQCg5FGE f5QcMjJu3uwqpa/5oqZpw6o= =eDb9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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