From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 15:45:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E249616A41F for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:45:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9117743D46 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:45:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480998A0195; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 88640-01-49; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.157] (unknown [192.168.0.157]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EE18A017E; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:46:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:45:32 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200510242235.48403.hselasky@c2i.net> <20051026172252.GA23243@netbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051026172252.GA23243@netbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510270845.32525.fcash@ocis.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5/6/7 kernel emulator for NetBSD 2.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:45:36 -0000 On October 26, 2005 10:22 am, Bill Studenmund wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:35:47PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > Main features: > > - Implements FreeBSD's devfs on NetBSD. > In the past, we (NetBSD folks) have talked about a devfs. One issue > that has come up (I'll be honest, I've raised it a lot) is a desire to > retain permission changes across boots, and to tie devices (when > possible) to a device-specific attribute rather than a probe order. FreeBSD 5+ has /etc/devfs.conf and /etc/devfs.rules which include information regarding permissions and ownership for device nodes under /dev. These files can even be used for creating fancy names for devices using symlinks (like /dev/burner for CD-RW devices, or /dev/floppy and so on). At boot time, /etc/devfs.conf is read, and /etc/devfs.rules is read whenever new devices are attached to the system (I believe that's how it works, anyway). Is that what you're looking for? > Does FreeBSD's devfs support locators and persistent information? Are > there plans to support something like that, if not? -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net