From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 5 2:17: 1 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 609F337B9F5 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:16:58 -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 LAA06796 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA25320 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:16:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA25E37B98B for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:16:47 -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 LAA66719; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:16:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Terry Lambert , Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev References: <200004042335.QAA12839@usr05.primenet.com> <20000404193257.N27486@holly.calldei.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 05 Apr 2000 11:16:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: Chris Costello's message of "Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:32:57 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 16 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 Chris Costello writes: > However, I don't think they will last forever, but will probably > be supported up to a certain date before which "everybody has to > MAKEDEV". I also do not think /dev/stdxxx will be considered "not > useful", but they, as separate device nodes, are certainly "bloat" > considering that fdesc can be used for this and is much simpler, so > why not keep the /dev files and lose the kernel /dev/std* code (and > put in the fdesc code). There is no "kernel /dev/std*" code. /dev/std* are simply fd nodes with different names. They have the same major and minor numbers as /dev/fd/[012]. 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