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>Number:         60874
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       auto-assign devfs ruleset numbers
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 03 14:30:11 PST 2004
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>Originator:     Colin Percival
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-RC i386
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System: FreeBSD fafnir.daemonology.net 5.2-RC FreeBSD 5.2-RC #2: Fri Jan 2 17:59:36 GMT 2004 cperciva@fafnir.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

>Description:

At present, devfs ruleset numbers must be specified.  This could cause 
problems with software which creates jails (with associated /dev mounts)
since two different applications might overwrite each other's rulesets.

It would be nice if devfs(8) and the associated kernel code had an
option for assigning an unused ruleset -- eg, 'devfs -m /foo/dev ruleset -1'
would result in the kernel finding an unused ruleset number in a given 
range (32-63, perhaps?) and assigning that ruleset number to the devfs.

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