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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 07:00:00 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS...
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On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 09:55:55PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 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.

If we're talking a true mknod, I still stand by the comment.  If we're
talking a compatibility hack that look like mknod, that's another cup
of tea, and one which I just sent three ways of 'solving'.

Eivind.

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