Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 21:14:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... Message-ID: <199805300414.VAA00432@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 20:52:01 PDT." <17374.896500321@time.cdrom.com>
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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. You could make a strong case for having mknod ignore the (dev) argument and just look the name up in the reference devfs copy, and then duplicate it at the path given (presuming that's inside a devfs). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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