From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 16 20:22:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown2-2-130.adsl.one.net [216.23.15.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11FE37BA2B; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA06213; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:53:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:53:42 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: Adrian Chadd Cc: Boris Popov , Poul-Henning Kamp , Coleman Kane , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <20000716225342.A6069@cokane.yi.org> References: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au>; from adrian@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:42:39AM -0400 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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