Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:41:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/i386/isa fd.c mcd.c scd.c wcd.c wd.c wt.c s Message-ID: <199607270941.LAA29233@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1430.838366976@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 26, 96 00:42:56 am"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It would also allow you to make links, like: > > ln -s /dev/cuaa0 /dev/mouse > > Which get recreated automagically when devfs is next mounted. Yes, That's what i wrote as being ``logical device names''. However, there's still the problem that your /dev/mouse might point to nowhereland if your sio0 failed probing at this kernel boot. It would normally be better to not have /dev/mouse in this case either. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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