From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 27 0:51:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDAE37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4792D43FDD for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1R8p1aa004337; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:51:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Kris Kennaway , Dan Nelson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:12:29 PST." <20030227071229.GB2442@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:51:01 +0100 Message-ID: <4336.1046335861@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For now the focus is to make sure we don't run out of major numbers, and for that I don't see why we should not recognize some devices as sufficiently magic that we will not touch their majors. /dev/null, and /dev/zero are at the top of my list. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message