From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 25 14: 4:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (miami.integratus.com [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7EF337B949 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: (qmail 10391 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2000 21:04:18 -0000 Received: from kungfu.integratus.com (HELO integratus.com) (172.20.5.168) by tortuga1.integratus.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2000 21:04:18 -0000 Message-ID: <397E00D2.1F736032@integratus.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:04:18 -0700 From: Jack Rusher Organization: Integratus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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