Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 06:22:27 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers Message-ID: <17403.934777347@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:14:45 %2B0930." <19990816091445.F799@freebie.lemis.com>
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In message <19990816091445.F799@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >On Sunday, 15 August 1999 at 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> Well, autumn and winter is on us pretty soon. At least on my >> lattitude that means hot tea inside warm and cosy houses while the >> elements do their best to make life misserable for anything still >> left on the outside. >> >> Here are some tasks which could put an evening or more to >> productive and educational use for interested kernel hackers. >> >> They may also make a nice assignment for CS classes. >> >> 1. [easy] The SLIP device/interface could use the same >> makeover as tun, bpf and pty has received. (see also #5) > >Care to explain (read: document) the makeover? That would make this >and the following tasks even simpler. Please examine the most recent commit to tun, bpf or pty. That is much easier than me explaining it. >> 7. [medium] The current naming for ptys doesn't scale that >> well. Changing it to ttyp%d / pty%d would probably be a >> good idea in the long run, but the ramifications are >> relatively widespread (think: "ports") > >Is there any reason not to have both names, at least for the first 256 >devices? Size of /dev directory maybe ? I dunno, who ever implements this can do it however they like... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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