From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 6 17:19:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA28905 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA28878 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id DAA23684 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:19:18 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id DAA27226 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:19:18 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id DAA15010 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:01:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604070101.DAA15010@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: devfs questions To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:01:37 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604070034.RAA28746@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 6, 96 05:34:19 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > I still think that devfs should export the root directory and a dev > directory and be mounted in the kernel. Why? And what's devfs' job wrt. the root dir? > I think it is a bad thing to chang init this way. What's the basical difference? (Despite, it's perhaps not much harder either, but i'm curious about your reasons.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)