From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 21:55:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18000 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 21:55:43 -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 VAA17995 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 21:55:41 -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 VAA17591; Fri, 29 May 1998 21:55:55 -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 06:00:08 +0200." <19980530060008.33353@follo.net> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 21:55:55 -0700 Message-ID: <17587.896504155@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Allowing mknod on a devfs would be somewhat akin to pointing an Uzi at > your foot and playing with how close to the actual trig limit you can > pull the trigger without firing. Naw, nothing so dire. Backwards compatability doesn't always have to be asthetically pleasing, it just has to work and for a reasonable period of time until people have made the transition. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message