From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 1 19:10:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29590 for freebsd-arch-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 19:10:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29583 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 19:10:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA05042 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 04:10:10 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA93465 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 04:10:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles215.castles.com [208.214.165.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28899; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 18:59:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06431; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 18:54:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901020254.SAA06431@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Robey cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Jan 1999 18:55:40 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 18:54:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Anyhow, moving to the lack of defaults ... you claim that there is no > method of restoring default values to a device, once that device has > been modified in the persistence database. There's no existing method, but plenty of room to overload the 'chmod' syscall semantics to indicate that a node should restore itself to its defaults. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message