From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Apr 4 8:54:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D2D37B52D for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:54:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11897 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:58:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA23768 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:54:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE34E37BAEE for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:54:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA63347; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:54:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Terry Lambert Cc: 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 References: <200003291850.LAA22495@usr05.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 04 Apr 2000 17:54:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:50:19 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert writes: > > > In message , 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 just as stale just as fast as /dev gets out of date with the 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? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message