From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 19 15:47:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9101F152FA for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:47:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from home.elischer.org (home.elischer.org [207.76.204.203]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA42202; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:47:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@home.elischer.org To: Chuck Robey Cc: Wayne Cuddy , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: what is devfs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > DEVFS itself works fine however a subsystem it required to be a useful > > abstraction was vandalised and stripped out by some people who "didn't get > > it" and it has not yet been replaced by equivalent code. > > It seems more correct (to me) to state that there was a furious > disagreement over whether or not to allow some memory of file permissions > in devfs. Since there was never any agreement, DEVFS has smoldered. I > think there's general agreement it would be a good thing to have, but that > argument over how to keep user configurations must be handled. file permissions were not relevant to the code that was ripped out (the stackable disk partitionning layers) (called SLICE). > > Saying it was dumped by people who "didn't get it" isn't quite correct, > just people who didn't agree with your viewpoint on permissions. It > wasn't only your viewpoint, I know there were many other highly qualified > folks who agreed with you, but there wasn't much spirit of compromise > evinced. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, > 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and > (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message