From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 13: 4:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533701553D for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:04:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA12293; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:03:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:02:32 PST." Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:03:48 +0100 Message-ID: <12291.945291828@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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