Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 00:33:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Mike Pritchard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More devfs stuff Message-ID: <199504220733.AAA01174@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504220716.CAA01395@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Apr 22, 95 02:16:33 am
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> > Before I forget, it seems like people are leaning towards the > /dev/xxx/zzz style for the DEVFS project. I've seen quite a few > examples that list /dev/pty/00 as the format they want (for example). > Please, lets save us a lot of trouble down the road and make > it /dev/pty/000. I've been through one conversion that went from > a 64 to a 256+ limit in this area, and I would not like > to do it again. Heck, even /dev/pty/0000 isn't even really > out of line these days. > > Repeat after me: future expansion, future expansion... Then do it really right, and don't use leading zero's to imply an upper limit. Look at the current /dev/fd, it works just fine and has no upper bounds (well, okay the minor is still a limit at what, 24 bits??). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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