Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:03:48 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com 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: <12291.945291828@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:02:32 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912151301300.22090-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912151301300.22090-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew Jacob writes: >> >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. Well, they are no less subtle by having them in different processes... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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