Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:32:57 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev Message-ID: <20000404193257.N27486@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <200004042335.QAA12839@usr05.primenet.com> References: <xzp8zytsvyj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200004042335.QAA12839@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Tuesday, April 04, 2000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> I expect /dev/std* to eventually be recognized as "not useful" and
> find its butt deprecated in favor of "/dev/fd{0-2}".
At this point, I believe that stdxxx may just be left alone
as well as tty. Currently fdesc mounts normally on a /dev/fd
directory.
However, I don't think they will last forever, but will
probably be supported up to a certain date before which
"everybody has to MAKEDEV". I also do not think /dev/stdxxx will
be considered "not useful", but they, as separate device nodes,
are certainly "bloat" considering that fdesc can be used for this
and is much simpler, so why not keep the /dev files and lose the
kernel /dev/std* code (and put in the fdesc code).
This also allows us to yank out the /dev/fd/ static node
support and replace them with more useful synthetic FS nodes.
Does anybody else really disagree?
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