From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 21 8: 3:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDB615B21 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08799; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:03:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:03:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Julian Elischer Cc: John-Mark Gurney , Brian Beattie , "Matthew N. Dodd" , Wayne Cuddy , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: what is devfs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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