From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 10:26:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3272A14D51 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:26:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA11262; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:25:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , Brian Somers , Andrzej Bialecki , Bill Fumerola , "Louis A. Mamakos" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 02:56:30 +0900." <3857D64E.ABE978FE@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:25:26 +0100 Message-ID: <11260.945282326@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3857D64E.ABE978FE@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: >> >> Yea... been hearing that for 4 years... one of it's big short comings is >> that it needs a persistent backing store for this. Sounds like this C >> program could fullfill one of the missing parts of devfs :-) A "devd" program would solve 98% of what devfs could solve. It cannot solve the homebrew-a-vnode-for-the-root-fs problem. FreeBSD needs a "devd" program *anyway* because what good is dynamic devices if you can't do something intelligent with them when they appear (mount/ifconfig etc etc etc). -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message