From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 28 4:39: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A22F37B6BA for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:39:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00770 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:42:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA04965 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:39:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B306B37B596 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA24969; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:38:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: chris@calldei.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev References: <1394.954246680@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Mar 2000 14:38:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:31:20 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > Anyway, since /dev/std* never change, how about having fdesc *only* > > handle the /dev/fd/* stuff, so you can (non-union) mount it on /dev/fd > > and let /dev/std* be either symlinks to /dev/fd/[012] or plain old > > static device nodes like they're now? > Symlinks have my vote. The downside is they'll be broken if fdesc isn't mounted... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message