From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 16 21: 4:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACEE37B994; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FXT0044KQ0AB6@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:04:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA48799; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:03:28 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:03:27 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: DEVFS In-reply-to: <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au> To: Adrian Chadd Cc: Boris Popov , Poul-Henning Kamp , Coleman Kane , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000716230327.A48019@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, July 15, 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Ok, how about you, phk and julian throw up a list of what devfs should do? > I am forming some ideas on how to solve the namespace and device cloning > issues, we might make some forward work on this finally? :-) I'm not Boris, phk or Julian, but I'd like to add that it should probably integrate the fdesc code. Especially since I'm working on (and am soon going to hopefully commit) code to do more relatively major repairs to fdesc[1]. -- |Chris Costello |[1] Removing all references to DTYPE_* macros. `---------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message