From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 29 6:27:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0D337B69E for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:27:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0TERWK21536; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:27:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Wemm Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cloned open support In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:22:54 PST." <200101291422.f0TEMs451812@mobile.wemm.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:27:32 +0100 Message-ID: <21534.980778452@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200101291422.f0TEMs451812@mobile.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: >> But but but... we already *have* cloning Peter. It doesn't need >> a dedicated minordevice and it works for everything but vinum(4), >> and that is not because it cannot do what vinum(4) needs, but >> because vinum(4) needs somebody to do it. > >Who said anything about vinum? I did. I'm puzzled at what it is that Brian wants to do which cannot be done with our current cloning code. I was afraid that mentioning things DEVFS/clone can/cannot do would trigger a pointless digression into who is responsible for adding DEVFS support to vinum, I mentioned that specifically as a premptive strike :-) -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message