Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:04:18 -0700 From: Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com> To: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <397E00D2.1F736032@integratus.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007251350111.16927-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Were you thinking it could be that freeform? That is, not have any selectors > to qualify as to how the name might be decoded? So you'd just look it up > in a database? This raises the question as to whether this database is > dynamic and who maintains it. I fear the potential for a /etc/mnttab style mistake in the context of this kind of database. There are definitely some issues as to how this would be maintained and what sort of interface would be involved. Also, from a user interface perspective, how do you describe what domain the alias belongs to? If you decide not to, do you just set a fixed search order and go with the first match? Do we end up with a nsswitch.conf style file that gives order instructions? An /etc/hosts style table of name translations? Eek. -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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