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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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