From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 15 16:45: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD6914C06 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:44:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA03129; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:15:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA04947; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:14:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:14:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers Message-ID: <19990816091445.F799@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908150954.CAA10006@freefall.freebsd.org> <14546.934712877@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <14546.934712877@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 12:27:57PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 15 August 1999 at 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Well, autumn and winter is on us pretty soon. At least on my > lattitude that means hot tea inside warm and cosy houses while the > elements do their best to make life misserable for anything still > left on the outside. > > Here are some tasks which could put an evening or more to > productive and educational use for interested kernel hackers. > > They may also make a nice assignment for CS classes. > > 1. [easy] The SLIP device/interface could use the same > makeover as tun, bpf and pty has received. (see also #5) Care to explain (read: document) the makeover? That would make this and the following tasks even simpler. > 7. [medium] The current naming for ptys doesn't scale that > well. Changing it to ttyp%d / pty%d would probably be a > good idea in the long run, but the ramifications are > relatively widespread (think: "ports") Is there any reason not to have both names, at least for the first 256 devices? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message