From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 15 21:37:10 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 AED7C37B411; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:37:06 -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 f7G4ajn92060; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 06:36:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Julian Elischer , Andrew Kenneth Milton , Michael Lucas , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?)) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:47:35 +0930." <20010816094735.F49989@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 06:36:45 +0200 Message-ID: <92058.997936605@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 <20010816094735.F49989@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >On Wednesday, 15 August 2001 at 19:17:47 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message , Ju >> lian Elischer writes: >> >>> the lack of subdirectory support is a pitty. >> >> There is support for subdirectories: >> >> ls -la /dev/fd > >What am I supposed to see there? I get three character devices, all >mounted on /dev directly. Uhm, have you forgotten how ls(1) works ? Try this then: ls -lad /dev/fd /dev/fd/[012] >In view of the fact that this thread is about deficiencies in your >devfs, this is particularly uncalled for. One of the reasons that >Julian's devfs never got debugged was that you had made it very clear >from the start that it would be removed. History being rewritten eh ? I spent 3+ years trying to argue his DEVFS should be made default! -- 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