From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 6 5:22:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FF537B406; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 05:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f86CLWT92474; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:21:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:55:38 +1000." <20010906213206.P30661-100000@alphplex.bde.org> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:21:32 +0200 Message-ID: <92472.999778892@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 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