From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 20:51:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10920 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 20:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10915 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 20:51:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17378; Fri, 29 May 1998 20:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Eivind Eklund cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 05:48:42 +0200." <19980530054842.51661@follo.net> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 20:52:01 -0700 Message-ID: <17374.896500321@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > E.g. I can shoot my foot off, but I can't sew it back on. :-) > > Yes, you can. You can mount another devfs and 'mv' a device from it > (or at least that's the way the specs read - I don't have devfs > enabled right now, so I can't test). That's utterly rude. :-) I hope you're not implying that this is going to be the accepted way for doing this in the future as well. Non-persistence is a big enough violation of POLA as it is, and not even being able to do mknod(2) operations on a devfs to replace missing entries would be a POLA catastrophe. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message