From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 19 13:22:19 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2793114D45; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:22:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA32545; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:19:25 -0700 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:20:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Matthew Dillon , dg@root.com, Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) In-Reply-To: <18011.937771504@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message , Matthew > Jacob writes: > > > > >Okay, then. Really, seriously, though- if we're all stuck arguing a > >major issue from different viewpoints for lack of < 1K$ equipment, this is > >an easy problem to solve from the K$ point of view (hadn't thought about > >customs- I guess I just can't express mail these puppies, can I? :-)) > > You know, only Matt Dillon thought this was a hardware issue, I don't > think it is. Just trying to be helpful... > > Anyway, David (and Kirk through him) has already said their piece, and > still nobody has named an actual application which depends on bdevs > soo... Isn't that reasoning in reverse? Wouldn't be fairer to state "the problems that we have in the rest of the system are so large because we allow block device access to user programs that we must kill off such access?". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message