Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:26:02 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... Message-ID: <29532.896509562@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 21:38:19 PDT." <199805300438.VAA00666@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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> Uh, doing a reverse lookup on the major/minor pair would be pretty > unuseful. If you've just deleted the device, you have no idea what > it's (dev) is, so you can't possibly supply them as arguments. Eh? You still have an instance in your "template" mount that you can match up. I also _know_ that majors and minors are going away - I'm not trying to argue for their long-term preservation, simply that they continue to have as much "meaning" as possible during the transition period (which I would expect to last as long as 1 maybe 2 years before people are entirely accustomed to the new model). - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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