Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:48:13 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c Message-ID: <11048.1104832093@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:46:00 GMT." <20050104094600.GA11823@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <20050104094600.GA11823@walton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes: >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"?) You can revoke all devices, but it doesn't really work 100% except for ttys. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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