From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 14:33:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA22562 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 14:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA22506 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 14:32:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA10970; Thu, 23 May 1996 23:26:59 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA11558; Thu, 23 May 1996 23:26:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA18312; Thu, 23 May 1996 20:45:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605231845.UAA18312@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1R vs 050196SNAP To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 20:45:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, randy@zyzzyva.com (Randy Terbush) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605221811.NAA03001@sierra.zyzzyva.com> from Randy Terbush at "May 22, 96 01:03:19 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Randy Terbush wrote: > One of the more interesting things about the -current source tree > is the DEVFS. I don't have a feel for how stable it is in the latest > SNAP, but something I am looking forward to using. Perhaps someone > can comment on it's usefullness/stability? It's still rather green. You might only want to really enable it right now if you're going to test and/or debug it. (That doesn't mean it's particularly _instable_, but it's still some way until it can fully replace /dev.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)