Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:54:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes Message-ID: <200105142354.f4ENs5514952@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> of "Mon, 14 May 2001 07:32:54 PDT." <20010514073254.J18676@fw.wintelcom.net>
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> * Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [010514 07:08] wrote: > > > > I intended to ignore the major and minor arguments in mknod(2), simply > > treating it as a request to re-create the named node. > > It sounds nice, however that's a major POLA violation, no? I agree. I think mknod should either do as asked or fail, not do what the developer thinks the user should have asked. > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] > Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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