From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 27 16:34:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09157 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:34:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09151 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21717; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd021715; Mon Apr 27 23:33:46 1998 Message-ID: <35451492.FF6D5DF@whistle.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:28:18 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eivind Eklund CC: Doug Ambrisko , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS & sound drivers question References: <199804272030.NAA00121@whistle.com> <19980427231840.60289@follo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > DEVFS can't make symlinks, AFAIK. The easiest way for you to find out > is probably to ask Julian ;-) > DEVFS can handle symlinks but there is only the oportunity for USERS to make them. (It is not easy to explain why but there is a reason which is to do with duplicating them across multiple devfs mounts. DEVFS does allow drivers to make hard links quite trivially in fact doug and I just did that over at his desk. (patches to follow) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message