Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:29:54 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: proff@suburbia.net Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0-current port Message-ID: <199701210731.XAA04210@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19970121053159.6549.qmail@suburbia.net> from "proff@suburbia.net" at Jan 21, 97 04:31:59 pm
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In some mail from proff@suburbia.net, sie said: [...] > FreeBSD uses dynamically allocated cdevsw's. imho ipfilter should > not be manipulating the cdevsw directly at all (there are macros/ > functions in the kernel to do this). Darren's rational (correct me > if I'm wrong) behind scanning through cdevsw directly was to ensure > free major/minor number pairs. It manipuates cdevsw so that it knows the major/minor # and can create the entry in /dev itself (rather than rely on some script or human to do it correctly). Solaris2 has an interface for doing all this, and now I think FreeBSD does too (other OSes don't). > > So far I have come by now but I'm stuck at the moment. Anyone else > > got it to compile? > > Darren has recently been given commit access to FreeBSD-current in > order to integrate ipfilter. From from my preliminary code-review > there are no significant changes to be made appart from the addition > of divert sockets (and my socket-credential code <grin>). Hopefully > we will see something soon. I've already got a .c to replace mln_ipl.c for FreeBSD 2.2 (and 3.0) but I've only got so much time.... Darren
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