From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 14 3:40: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ywing.creative.net.au (ywing.creative.net.au [203.56.168.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BA637C7CF; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:39:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ywing.creative.net.au) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by ywing.creative.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA21191; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:46:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:46:44 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Adrian Chadd , Matthew Dillon , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysctlFS Message-ID: <20000714124644.E17372@ywing.creative.net.au> References: <20000712144510.A11316@ywing.creative.net.au> <200007130537.WAA29614@apollo.backplane.com> <20000714112117.D17372@ywing.creative.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 12:20:28PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 14, 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Adrian Chadd writes: > > Oh, I agree. Hence why I said I'd write it up as an "example filesystem" .. > > I'm tossing up a few candidates at the moment. > > Well, how about writing an exampl devfs? ;) > > I'm only half joking. Everyone seems to agree that we want (and need) > devfs, but nobody seems to want to actually write it (yes, I know > about the ownership / permissions problem, but don't you think someone > would have solved it by now if they really wanted to?) Well, as far as I can tell writing a devfs shouldn't be that hard to write, Handling stuff like replicating it between chroot/jails is a fun thing however. Maybe when I churn some docs out some enterprising soul will do it if it (still) hasnt been done. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message