From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 15 02:00:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA00829 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 02:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA00767 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 02:00:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA17982; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 05:04:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: server.local.sunyit.edu: perlsta owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 05:04:45 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: perlsta@server.local.sunyit.edu To: Carlo Dapor cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 86open and implication on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199710150823.KAA29036@nessie.ethz.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk it would be wonderful to have standard device names across all types of unices, however, what is the point? you will still have to type in which scsi drive you want to access, so what does the device name have to do with it? you are trying to apply an unnessesary abstraction to the system, remeber a file is a file is a file... :) -Alfred > I read the 86open 'vision'. > To me it sounds nice, having to generate simply one binary for many x86 plat- > forms. > The second thing that comes to my mind is, how are the differences addressed as > far as devices are concerned ? I mean, what if I were to write a nice archiving > utility, it would fully conform to UBF (a term I made up, btw), but I would > still have to know, which partition I'd archive (/dev/sd0s1a or /dev/sda1 - > not so sure here about Linux' corresponding name). > Will there be some kind of flavours ? > Or even better, a mechanism that maps device names, so that You wouldn't have > to bother anymore ?