From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 00:15:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3470837B401 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 00:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B03F43F3F for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 00:15:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7F7EoDo026564; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:44:51 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "M. Warner Losh" Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:44:49 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1060504397.777.15.camel@syrenna.deep-ocean.local> <200308150901.35745.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030814.224323.03703254.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030814.224323.03703254.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308151644.49459.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.7 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: eaja@erols.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usbd does not use detach X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:15:16 -0000 On Friday 15 August 2003 14:13, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <200308150901.35745.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> > > "Daniel O'Connor" writes: > : It should also have a hint to indicate that this device could potentially > : go away at any time, so it shouldn't cache anything if at all possible. > : (Although it would be good if the user could elect to override this in > : the interests of performance) > : > : I suspect that would require more significant changes though :) > > I suspect that this would be as hard to implement as dealing with > things going away, and produce a system that is less desirable to > use. I think ideally both would be possible.. It IS nice when you plug something in and it is mounted, and you do what you want with it, then a few seconds after you finish you unplug it. I LIKE this feature of Windows etc :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5