Date: 05 Apr 2000 11:16:31 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev Message-ID: <xzpln2srjps.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Chris Costello's message of "Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:32:57 -0500" References: <xzp8zytsvyj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200004042335.QAA12839@usr05.primenet.com> <20000404193257.N27486@holly.calldei.com>
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Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> writes: > However, I don't think they will last forever, but will probably > be supported up to a certain date before which "everybody has to > MAKEDEV". I also do not think /dev/stdxxx will be considered "not > useful", but they, as separate device nodes, are certainly "bloat" > considering that fdesc can be used for this and is much simpler, so > why not keep the /dev files and lose the kernel /dev/std* code (and > put in the fdesc code). There is no "kernel /dev/std*" code. /dev/std* are simply fd nodes with different names. They have the same major and minor numbers as /dev/fd/[012]. 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
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