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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!


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