From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 21 17:15:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D0837B405; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g3M0Ejw08129; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:14:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:14:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Doug Barton , Craig Boston , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a 'bpf' group for /dev/bpf* In-Reply-To: <48554.1019398383@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Robe > rt Watson writes: > > >> rc.devfs > > > >Unfortunately, this works poorly for cloned devices. At various meetings, > >there has been discussion of a devfsd and/or devd; that's probably the > >vehicle for doing that kind of administrative change. Unfortunately, it > >doesn't exist yet, although I think Warner had done some prototyping. > > Dima is actually working on this problem right now, and he has sent me a > prototype which shows great promise. This is great news. I look forward to seeing some details on -arch once the prototype is ready. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message