Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:34:28 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comments on this change please. Message-ID: <326D3DE4.167EB0E7@whistle.com> References: <199610221740.KAA08201@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > please comment. > > Begging the Captain's pardon, but... > > It seems to me that the correct thing is to move the FIFO to /var/run, > unconditionally. sure but BSDI binaries and old binaries will be problematic hence the symlink as well (for a limited time) > > It also seems to me that if the Linux binary compataility dependent > people wanted a /dev/log, they would be well advised to do: > > ln -s /var/run/syslog.socket /compat/linux/dev/log that's ok for linux but not BSDI > > And realize that the path lookup order for Linux binaries will make > this "just work". > > The same goes for other platforms for which binary compatability is > an issue. BSDI runs as native.. > > For read-only /, even if /compat is on /, it seems that you could > safely precreate these symlinks. > > Finally, using this technique, there is no reason devfs has to support > symlinks itself... if the FreeBSD user wants to make links in /dev > (why?), then they can use unionfs. too late.. devfs already does support symlinks but rofs should not be predecated on having devfs anyhow. >
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