From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 26 12:37:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA18467 for current-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA18462; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA03121; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:37:22 +0200 (MET DST) To: Joe Greco cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/i386/isa fd.c mcd.c scd.c wcd.c wd.c wt.c s In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:03:53 CDT." <199607261903.OAA18686@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:37:22 +0200 Message-ID: <3119.838409842@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As much as I pride myself with never agreeing with Garrett, I'm having a hard time finding a reason not to in this particular case. :-) There are a couple of fine points still not resolved. There is >still< no way to generally specify a policy: "Make all disks foo.bar mode 0640" and such. The major/minor of the underlying nodes are of course of no significance, but wouldn't it be nice to get rid of all that blasted code entirely ? Why would we even care about the type of node apart from "Directory" or "Not Directory" ? Ie, we could mount devfs on a FS that doesn't support c/b devs at all (msdos, hfs ...) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.