Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 20:52:01 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... Message-ID: <17374.896500321@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 May 1998 05:48:42 %2B0200." <19980530054842.51661@follo.net>
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> > 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
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