Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:32:51 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <14567.964560771@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:30:27 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007251426480.16927-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007251426480.16927-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthe w Jacob writes: >Okay. This I would find do-able. That's the real devfs then. A related >problem is how to device discovery so you would know what name to give to >disklabel or to put in /etc/fstab- but that's a separate discussion. > >Which then brings me back to where I came in the middle of this film- if this >is gonna happen for FreeBSD 5.0 for sure, then I don't need to do the partial >solution. I'm sure that there's much much much more discussion that needs to >occur. If I can do anything about it: Yes, a real devfs will be in 5.0. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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