Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:02:32 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912151301300.22090-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <12235.945291289@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >Isn't this throwing an awful lot onto init? > > Not really... > > The meta-daemon part is no different from keeping gettys in the air... > > The devd thing consists of selecting on some magic fd and running a > program when something happens. This could be done with a getty > like daemon too of course. I was just thinking it could get tricky and have subtle ordering bugs of new tty devices, changes to ttys and signals all about the same time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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