Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:55:33 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting device permissions for DEVFS Message-ID: <14852.970422933@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:51:13 MDT." <200010011751.LAA00911@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200010011751.LAA00911@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <11056.970344237@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >: We need a generic "devd" which finds out that devices have appeared, >: set their perms (if needed/wanted) and executes any commands needed >: (getty, mount, etc etc) by the device. > >ifconfig and dhclient are likely the most often executed ones now. > >I agree we need a generic devd. Does devfs use the kqueue interface? Not right now, but it could. Right now you can tell something happened by examining the sysctl vfs.devfs.generation -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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