From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 21 7:13:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B60437B417; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 07:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3LED3Hx048555; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:13:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Robert Watson Cc: Doug Barton , Craig Boston , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a 'bpf' group for /dev/bpf* In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:45:07 EDT." Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:13:03 +0200 Message-ID: <48554.1019398383@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Robe rt Watson writes: >> rc.devfs > >Unfortunately, this works poorly for cloned devices. At various meetings, >there has been discussion of a devfsd and/or devd; that's probably the >vehicle for doing that kind of administrative change. Unfortunately, it >doesn't exist yet, although I think Warner had done some prototyping. Dima is actually working on this problem right now, and he has sent me a prototype which shows great promise. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message