Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:35:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), chris@calldei.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev Message-ID: <200004042335.QAA12839@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp8zytsvyj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Apr 04, 2000 05:54:28 PM
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> Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> > > > In message <xzpsnxbxor2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> > > > > Anyway, since /dev/std* never change, how about having fdesc *only*
> > > > > handle the /dev/fd/* stuff, so you can (non-union) mount it on /dev/fd
> > > > > and let /dev/std* be either symlinks to /dev/fd/[012] or plain old
> > > > > static device nodes like they're now?
> > > > Symlinks have my vote.
> > > The downside is they'll be broken if fdesc isn't mounted...
> > The other downside is that, unlike devfs contents, they'll get
> > just as stale just as fast as /dev gets out of date with the
> > currently running kernel and/or MAKEDEV.
>
> You expect the major/minor numbers for std{in,out,err} to change in
> the foreseeable future?
No.
I expect the targets of symbolic links to move out from under them,
unless someone (like /dev/MAKEDEV) accepts responsibility for
keeping them up to date, form this day forward, for all eternity.
I expect /dev/std* to eventually be recognized as "not useful" and
find its butt deprecated in favor of "/dev/fd{0-2}".
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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