From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 28 10:31:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA18069 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:31:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18063 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:31:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA20299; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:26:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610281826.LAA20299@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: comments on this change please. To: benedict@echonyc.com (Snob Art Genre) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:26:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Snob Art Genre" at Oct 28, 96 00:09:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > symlinks itself... if the FreeBSD user wants to make links in /dev > > (why?), then they can use unionfs. > > modem, mouse, just off the top of my head. I don't know why you need it for the modem... For the mouse, that's more an artifact of us not having an abstraction device for the mouse protocol -- something that *should* be there so that software does not end up with mouse protocol implementations for every mouse out there. And that's something that can (and should) be fixed. In any case, they can still use unionfs to get symlinks without depending devfs to support them. What's the point of having FS layering at all if you can't abstract things like symlink support from namespace support? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.