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Date:      Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:13:03 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, Craig Boston <craig@gjgth.gank.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding a 'bpf' group for /dev/bpf* 
Message-ID:  <48554.1019398383@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:45:07 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020421093834.91313G-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020421093834.91313G-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe
rt Watson writes:

>> rc.devfs
>
>Unfortunately, this works poorly for cloned devices.  At various meetings,
>there has been discussion of a devfsd and/or devd; that's probably the
>vehicle for doing that kind of administrative change.  Unfortunately, it
>doesn't exist yet, although I think Warner had done some prototyping.

Dima is actually working on this problem right now, and he has sent me
a prototype which shows great promise.

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