Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:20:35 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> 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: <20000405152035.T27486@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpln2srjps.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzp8zytsvyj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200004042335.QAA12839@usr05.primenet.com> <20000404193257.N27486@holly.calldei.com> <xzpln2srjps.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Wednesday, April 05, 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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]. It works just as well without that last sentence, then, and the point is generally the same. -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers. `--------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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