Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 07:33:29 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: finrod@ewox.org (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: s/bpfilter/bpf/ Message-ID: <5159.909675209@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "29 Oct 1998 14:16:38 %2B0100." <86u30n7bk9.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>
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> While in Arnhem, I discussed renaming the bpfilter pseudo-device to > bpf. There seemed to be agreement that it would be more consistent > (amongst other items, the device nodes are named /dev/bpf*, and the > man page is bpf(4)). I agree that this change is overdue, but I also wonder whether or not you could do this so that ``pseudo-device bpfilter'' would continue to be a synonym for bpf. It wouldn't appear in any documentation or be suggested, but would at least continue to work for those with old config files. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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