Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:52:24 +0600 (ALMT) From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, mjacob@feral.com, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>, current@FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103121051310.60733-100000@lion.butya.kz> In-Reply-To: <46116.984342191@critter>
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20010311121337.J18351@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > > >What's up with devfs not gc'ing itself? Ie, after a directory > >becomes empty it seems to still exist within the devfs namespace > >instead of disappearing. > > That was a deliberate decision, removing a directory(-inode) which > might have a valid vnode is kind of a nasty thing to attempt. Err, "might" ? These things are well defined by VFS interface. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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