Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 12:51:52 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Message-ID: <20000508195152.754C01CE3@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> of "Mon, 08 May 2000 12:40:31 PDT." <20000508124031.C51871@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:32:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > We should just stop arguing about what it has ment historically and > > say that "rsa0" is the rewind device and the "nrsa0" is the non-rewind > > device and not worry about renaming of the device entries. > > Nope. If "r" is raw then it must die like the rest of the "r" devices > since all devices are raw now. Our block buffered tape devices and the B_TAPE flag died *long* ago. "r" was to distinguish raw vs. block. There is now no distinction so IMHO we should use 'devname' not 'rdevname' by default. But I still think we should create both /dev nodes (r and non-r) for some time, but both as character devices. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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