Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:25:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: You gotta be kidding .... Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c Message-ID: <199910181825.LAA01258@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:25:02 PDT." <199910181825.LAA69079@apollo.backplane.com>
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> Instead, the appropriate way is to turn off user level blockdev > access entirely. This is the conclusion that was made weeks ago > when you first started your rampage to blow away block devices. A > time table was also proposed at that time and I committed a sysctl > to implement it (which you attempted to remove two weeks ago, which > led to blowup #2). That's what this basically does; it just shortcuts the the old block device entries to the character device to avoid violating POLA, so that people can experiment with life on a system with nothing that behaves like a "block device". -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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