From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jun 3 15:10:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14671 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14583 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:10:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01313; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806032104.OAA01313@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Dinesh Nair cc: Andrzej Bialecki , Alain Brauner , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tips and tricks In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 02:48:25 +0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:04:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > And DEVFS is purely 3.0-current thing - I doubt it will ever be ported to > > 2.2.x line... I'm afraid that's bad news for you, Dinesh :-( but it would > > require massive changes in kernel... > > well, there's an "options DEVFS" and "options DEVFS_ROOT" in 2.2.6's > LINT. also a devfs(5) man page which says > > "HISTORY > The devfs filesystem first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. The devfs manual > page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2." The DEVFS in the 2.* family was never properly implemented and has rotted on the vine. It would have been ripped out if it weren't for the large volume of gratuitous change it would cause. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message