From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 30 10:55:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12937 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coleridge.kublai.com (coleridge.kublai.com [207.96.1.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12912 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:55:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shmit@coleridge.kublai.com) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by coleridge.kublai.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA08737; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:54:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980930135442.D20854@kublai.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:54:42 -0400 From: Brian Cully To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Support for sd and st Devices (was: time for some new man pages) Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <199809300512.PAA17386@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199809300544.WAA09382@ix.netcom.com> <19980930102536.K307@kublai.com> <19980930103313.A3511@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19980930103313.A3511@nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:33:13AM -0700 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 10:33:13AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > What other operating systems? The only ones I can think of are > > NetBSD and OpenBSD, > > Also SunOS 4.x, Linux. Linux uses sd[a-z], not sd[0-9]. SunOS 4.x uses a fixed target -> device name mapping. Just because they share the same prefix doesn't give you any additional win, since they have different semantics. My point was (and still is), the notion of OS portability for something like device nodes just isn't going to be viable any time in the near future. Portability between OS' is not an issue. -bjc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message