Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 13:28:42 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: conf.c and USL copyright at top Message-ID: <5081.819548922@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 1995 03:36:32 %2B1100." <199512201636.DAA08865@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >> tty_conf.c is more interesting. It could be handled more dynamically > >> like conf.c. There isn't as much to gain because the analogue of the > >> major numbers -- the line discipline numbers -- can't be avoided because > >> there is no by-name user interface. > > >Well, we solved the same thing in VFS with a linker-set... > > Linker sets can't be used to sove problems related to magic numbers in > the user interface. Filesystems have a magic number as well. What I meant was that we could register the line-disciplines along the lines we register VFS's. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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