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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:03:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: what is devfs?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909211101390.312-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909202321540.22714-100000@home.elischer.org>

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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> > POLA!  if we have persisten permissions and ownership, and we allow
> > renaming, then renaming should also be persistant...  after the mount
> > again, da0c either no longer exists, or is no longer ttyd1... which
> > neither is an acceptable solution...
> 
> I think at this stage you've gone overboard..

Gee, I'd have to agree on this one.

> part of the definition of devfs is that a device shows up on mount
> with it's canonical name.. On each new mount every time, even if you've
> mounted it in 10 different places.

Absolutely correct, canonical names only, why don't you try to rename
files in /proc?  You've taken this one too far this time.


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