From owner-cvs-all Sun May 13 18:41:26 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A62937B42C; Sun, 13 May 2001 18:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 20AEE6ACBC; Mon, 14 May 2001 11:11:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:11:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Eric Melville Cc: Kris Kennaway , Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes (was: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c) Message-ID: <20010514111119.I88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200105132052.f4DKqfo39754@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010513141237.A63235@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010514074016.N86168@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513151500.A27277@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010514075417.A88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513152842.A28203@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010513181354.A46193@FreeBSD.org> <20010514105122.G88359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010513182649.A51972@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010513182649.A51972@FreeBSD.org>; from eric@FreeBSD.org on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:26:49PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 13 May 2001 at 18:26:49 -0700, Eric Melville wrote: >> I'd prefer another name: rm. >> >> There are two issues here. Firstly, in the past it has always been >> possible to remove device nodes with rm(1). If we want to keep this >> functionality, we should not change the way we do it. >> >> On the other hand, though, is that what we want to do? destroy_dev is >> only half the picture. How do you recreate it? mknod has effectively >> been consigned to the scrap heap. I'm sure phk will come up with some >> valid arguments when he wakes up. > > At first I was going to add this in to rm(1), but I thought people would > object to that. Apparently I got it backwards, I'll do as you > suggest. I think you should wait for phk's comments before committing. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message