Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:53:42 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <20000716225342.A6069@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au>; from adrian@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:42:39AM -0400 References: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007151908320.51585-100000@lion.butya.kz> <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au>
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This is a great idea. We need a good, well drawn out description of what DEVFS is supposed to accomplish and how we'd like it to work. I will be glad to help out, and perhaps we can get some movement on this. Personally, I'd like to see DEVFS completely replace the current system of nodes in /dev. One nice feature would also be to be able to define aliases of certain devices, such as cdrom, modem, etc... I suppose these could get handled in rc/rc.conf. Also, I really like the idea of being able to create a 'limited' devfs mount for a chroot'd environment. Adrian Chadd had the audacity to say: > > Ok, how about you, phk and julian throw up a list of what devfs should do? > I am forming some ideas on how to solve the namespace and device cloning > issues, we might make some forward work on this finally? :-) > > > Adrian > > -- > Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the > <adrian@FreeBSD.org> rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and > he's warm for the rest of his life. > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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