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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:43:15 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, mjacob@feral.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anybody working on devd? 
Message-ID:  <38117.1006972995@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:03:58 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011128125713.40174B-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011128125713.40174B-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robert 
Watson writes:

>Note that the race can be fixed by modifying your source of events for
>"the common application".  Hence my recommendation (made after your post,
>as I caught up) that devd/devfsd feed off of a /dev/somethinginparticular,
>and that they generate event information on /dev/somethingmoregeneral,
>[...]

And where do you want to run the devd for jails ?  Inside the jail ?

Do you really want to spend a process per jail to be able to open a
PTY in the jail ?

It doesn't scale...

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