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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:46:00 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c
Message-ID:  <20050104094600.GA11823@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <7767.1104820202@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <Pine.BSO.4.58.0501032011150.11031@af.pbqrshfvbavf.pbz> <7767.1104820202@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 07:30:02AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >>   Log:
> >>   Eliminate vop_revoke() function now that devfs_revoke() does the entire job.

> >do these changes mean it is no longer possible to revoke ordinary files?

> It never were.

There was actually a short period when revoking regular files and
ttys worked. However, revoking fifos and Unix domain sockets didn't,
so it was restricted to tty for the sake of consistency. (Maybe
where I say "ttys" I actually mean "devices"?)

	David.



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