From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 14 23:21:47 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C505A152D1; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 23:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (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 IAA13719; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:19:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Brian Somers Cc: Julian Elischer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys conf.h In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:14:35 BST." <199908142014.VAA07985@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:19:49 +0200 Message-ID: <13717.934697989@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199908142014.VAA07985@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes: >> >One possibility would be to support generic devices - /dev/tun for >> >example rather than /dev/tun*. It'd be amazing to have /dev/pty too >> >:-) >> >> This is different and unrelated. I have already fixed pty so that >> there is no "NPTY" anymore, you can just open any random pty and the >> kernel will create it on the fly. The same stunt can be done with >> tun, it is really easy. > >Not being limited by magic numbers in your kernel config file is >definitely a win, but the real win is to be able to open /dev/tun (or >/dev/pty) and ``just get one''. I really don't care which one I get >- I just want any one. There are a couple of nasty wrinkles to this bit of the task, and they are much easier to do in a proper DEVFS than without, so I will not attempt them now. -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message