From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 22:43:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7086E16A41F for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:43:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wrstuden@netbsd.org) Received: from mail.netbsd.org (mail.netbsd.org [204.152.190.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEAA243D46 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:43:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wrstuden@netbsd.org) Received: by mail.netbsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1130) id 8EF2563B17A; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:43:17 -0700 From: Bill Studenmund To: der Mouse Message-ID: <20051027224317.GE16197@netbsd.org> References: <200510242235.48403.hselasky@c2i.net> <20051026172252.GA23243@netbsd.org> <200510270845.32525.fcash@ocis.net> <200510272055.QAA19487@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2hMgfIw2X+zgXrFs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510272055.QAA19487@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:30:25 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@NetBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5/6/7 kernel emulator for NetBSD 2.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:43:20 -0000 --2hMgfIw2X+zgXrFs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:53:35PM -0400, der Mouse wrote: > >>> - Implements FreeBSD's devfs on NetBSD. > >> In the past, we (NetBSD folks) have talked about a devfs. > >> [...persistence...] > > FreeBSD 5+ has /etc/devfs.conf and /etc/devfs.rules [...]. Is that > > what you're looking for? >=20 > I didn't write what you're responding to, but, speaking personally: >=20 > If making changes to /dev with chmod/chown/mv/etc results in those > files getting rewritten to match, it's fine. If not, it's not. I think that having those changes propogated to the userland config files= =20 would be very good. I'd really want NetBSD to do it, and I bet it could be= =20 a useful feature for FreeBSD too. Take care, Bill --2hMgfIw2X+zgXrFs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (NetBSD) iD8DBQFDYVgFWz+3JHUci9cRAjpGAJ910+d9coFUYHl+vOVZ/YqBtKc4wwCgheZJ Fuyo7+aBPSr117kAAbDEKM0= =0MTz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2hMgfIw2X+zgXrFs--