Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:55:15 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, 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: <20010311205514.R18351@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103121051310.60733-100000@lion.butya.kz>; from bp@butya.kz on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:52:24AM %2B0600 References: <46116.984342191@critter> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103121051310.60733-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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* Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> [010311 20:52] wrote: > 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. You hand it off to deadfs no? You want to have the same sort of handling that the common FS does when let's say you have two xterms open, one in your homedir and the other in homedir/foo, in the first you rmdir foo and suddenly the second is a bit confused, but it doesn't panic the box... -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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