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Date:      Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:21:32 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/modules/ccd Makefile src/sys/sys ccdvar.h 
Message-ID:  <92472.999778892@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:55:38 %2B1000." <20010906213206.P30661-100000@alphplex.bde.org> 

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In message <20010906213206.P30661-100000@alphplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>This was decreed but not agreed to.  I don't use devfs and don't plan
>to use it until it works at least as well as specfs (if this is
>possible).  I have noticed about 10 minor bugs in it despite only running
>it to test it every 6 months or so.  Examples:

Why don't you report such findings then ?

>- file time updates are broken in several ways.

Details ?

>- stat() doesn't work right on devfs directories (st_size and st_blocks
>  zero for all devfs files, but should be nonzero for directories).

Where is this requirement from ?

>- pathconf() doesn't work right on devfs directrories (_PC_NAME_MAX and
>  _PC_PATH_MAX are unsupported, but must be supported for directories).

OK, that's a bug.

>- acd devices still have insecure modes (world readable).

That is not a fault in DEVFS but in the driver.

-- 
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