From owner-cvs-all Mon May 14 16:54:17 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E25E37B422; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4ENs6363976; Tue, 15 May 2001 00:54:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4ENs5514952; Tue, 15 May 2001 00:54:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200105142354.f4ENs5514952@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Robert Watson , Greg Lehey , Eric Melville , Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein of "Mon, 14 May 2001 07:32:54 PDT." <20010514073254.J18676@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:54:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * Poul-Henning Kamp [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 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