From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 9 8:57:44 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F94237B423; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 08:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e89FvUN88726; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 17:57:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen devname.3 devname.c src/sys/kern kern_conf.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Sep 2000 15:36:30 +0200." <42382.968506590@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 17:57:30 +0200 Message-ID: <88724.968515050@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <42382.968506590@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 04:40:00 MST, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Modified files: >> lib/libc/gen devname.3 devname.c >> sys/kern kern_conf.c >> Log: >> Add code to devname(3) so it can find the names of devices which >> were not present when dev_mkdb(8) was run. > >How do we cater for programmers in a case like this, where the interface >hasn't really changed, but new header files are needed to keep it >working? I merely added it the man-page, it was also needed before to get hold of S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message