From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 29 14:23:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA15766 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA15755 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA15295; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:22:44 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA15084; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:22:44 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA03614; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:21:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604292121.XAA03614@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: devfs policy question. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:21:34 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604261858.LAA27576@ref.tfs.com> from Julian Elischer at "Apr 26, 96 11:58:42 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > What should devfs do to a device that is open when > the driver requests that it be deleted? Should not happen. :) > At the moment a vgone() is done on the vnode. > is this right? > > It is dissociated from devfs and vgone (well vclean actually) > associates it with the deadfs vnops. > > Is this the right thing to do? Perhaps also log it? > Policy question number two > should devfs allow the creation of fifo/named pipes? > I tend to think yes.... they are dynamic and kinda-like devices Hmm, maybe. :) (I don't have an idea where to use it for, but it certainly can't hurt much to have them.) (No idea about your 3rd question.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)