From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 15 10:18: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAB737B407; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7FHHln83742; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:17:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Julian Elischer Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton , Greg Lehey , Michael Lucas , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:06:55 PDT." Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:17:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83740.997895867@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ju lian Elischer writes: >the lack of subdirectory support is a pitty. There is support for subdirectories: ls -la /dev/fd >it was a primary design goal in the previous devfs and its >disappearance caught me by surprise. (the support I mean) The ability to not panic left, right and centre was a primary design goal of this devfs and its absense in the previos devfs caught be by surprise. (The lack of support as well). Julian, I think it would reflect well on you to stop the official mourning at some point in the near future. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message