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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:12:39 -0500
From:      CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geom_label and directories under /dev
Message-ID:  <4B9EBEE7.5080803@cyberleo.net>
In-Reply-To: <hnm64s$pfs$1@dough.gmane.org>
References:  <20100315195059.GA1331@a91-153-117-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi> <hnm64s$pfs$1@dough.gmane.org>

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On 03/15/2010 03:43 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>> So it's probably a dead end to try to suggest disallowing of '/'?
>> Unfortunately it's not easy to fix all problems with directories. For
>> starters devfs doesn't support removal of directories at all.
> 
> I have no idea why "/" would be allowed - it isn't in regular filenames
> so why would this be special? I wote to remove slashes.

Please be very careful with such a change. I rely on this behaviour
pretty heavily, to keep things hierarchically arranged. Such a change
would break pretty much every box I run.

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