From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 6 8:16:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF33F37B405 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:16:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 51AAB14C2E; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:16:32 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Kevin D.Wooten Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs? References: <77717.1004986298@critter.freebsd.dk> <01110512492207.08198@newton.cevio.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 06 Nov 2001 17:16:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <01110512492207.08198@newton.cevio.com> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin D.Wooten writes: > Well the linux devfs has a compatibility mode that maintains a /dev > that looks exactly like pre-devfs ( the actual list of files is > static ), and only links up ( mknod ) the newly added devices to the > pre-existing files. There is also the non-compatible mode which only > has files for the devices you actually have, and creates the files > on demand. What's the point with having device nodes for devices you don't have? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message