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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:23:55 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: devname(3) broken for DEFVS 
Message-ID:  <11142.967476235@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:14:01 %2B0200." <80966.967475641@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> 

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>Hi Poul-Henning,
>
>I've been having trouble with ps(1) printing invalid controlling
>terminal names for processes connected to psuedo-terminals.
>
>This only seems to be a problem for DEVFS-enabled systems.

Yes, devname(3) need to learn a few things.  It's actually always
been a problem if you added device nodes after boot where dev_mkdb
was run.

I think the DTRT solution is a sysctl where kern_conf.c can answer
the question.

It's on my list.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
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