From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 17:52:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C35714E7C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:52:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA20796; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199912150151.RAA20796@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) In-Reply-To: <199912150139.BAA01185@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Dec 15, 1999 01:39:28 am" To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:51:25 -0800 (PST) Cc: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola), louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos), current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [.....] > > On a related subject: don't you think it's high time to end up this > > madness with MAKEDEV being a shell script, and reimplement it in C? Today, > [.....] > *cough*DEVFS*cough* Yea... been hearing that for 4 years... one of it's big short comings is that it needs a persistent backing store for this. Sounds like this C program could fullfill one of the missing parts of devfs :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message