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Date:      Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:23:51 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r210926 - head/sys/dev/null
Message-ID:  <20100806142351.GQ22295@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20100806142148.GB76386@hoeg.nl>
References:  <201008060947.o769lmjn076629@svn.freebsd.org> <20100806142148.GB76386@hoeg.nl>

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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:21:48PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Log:
> >   Mark /dev/zero and /dev/null as eternal.
>=20
> So `eternal' means that these device nodes can never ever disappear?
> Maybe we can also mark /dev/ctty (tty_tty.c) like this as well?
Yes, the plan is to mark all eligible devices eventually. But I want to
wait some time, before making the sweep over the drivers, to make sure
that I did not missed something serious in the design. This is why
only /dev/null and /dev/zero are converted for now.

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