From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 19 01:29:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA20746 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:29:54 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA20739 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:29:47 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA03266 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:29:38 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA23084 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:29:38 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA29625 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:21:46 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511190921.KAA29625@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: linux' mknod and named pipes. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:21:45 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511190810.JAA21987@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Nov 19, 95 09:10:45 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 415 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: > > > The problem I have with this is that mknod() will be going away in the > > future (think devfs). > > The function may go away. How are you going to address the issue of > portability? mknod's are inherently unportable. -- 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. ;-)