Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:33:18 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for PTY/devfs changes Message-ID: <25837.1168324398@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:50:58 EST." <200701081750.59131.jhb@freebsd.org>
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In message <200701081750.59131.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes: >On Monday 08 January 2007 14:29, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Unfortunately the pty uses 'make_dev_cred' with a specific credential and that >credential reference is what is not getting released. devfs needs to learn about that cred if the cdev is marked cheap. >> In that case the cdev gets recycled quite fast if unreferenced. > >How does devfs know to recycle the cdev? And will it recycle cdev's after >they are closed? via the normal vnode cleaup. -- 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.
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