Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:58:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question Message-ID: <1134.845513938@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:26:57 PDT." <199610162326.QAA04157@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> I thought it was supposed to generate devices dynamically based on > hardware presence, not persistently based on user fiat. It's supposed to do BOTH. As the many people who beat me up at USENIX over it said (*me*, and I'm not even the author!): "Fine, make it the default if you like, just make it *act* the same as it always has then! POLA dictates that if I decide to make a symlink or explicitly remove a file, those changes should stay there just as they always did. If I don't actually have to know about it, then I don't care whether I'm running devfs or the old /dev. If I do, and have to alter my administrative behavior, then I care very much." I feel they had a perfectly valid point. Jordan
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