Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 08:14:14 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_disk.c Message-ID: <49057.1004771654@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Nov 2001 11:21:05 %2B1030." <20011103112105.K41666@monorchid.lemis.com>
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In message <20011103112105.K41666@monorchid.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >On Friday, 2 November 2001 at 1:16:25 -0800, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> phk 2001/11/02 01:16:25 PST >> >> Modified files: >> sys/kern subr_disk.c >> Log: >> Turn the symlinks around, instead of ad0s1 -> ad0s1c, make it ad0s1c -> ad0s1. > >Why are these symlinks and not normal links? Devfs doesn't support normal links since they don't make sense and complicated the vnode handling. For devices there is no semantic difference between a hard and a soft link. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | 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
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