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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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