From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 16 8:10:37 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D170A152ED; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:10:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA19745; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:09:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Brian Somers Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Julian Elischer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys conf.h In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:13:09 BST." <199908161313.OAA77853@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:09:27 +0200 Message-ID: <19743.934816167@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199908161313.OAA77853@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes: >Just chewing the cud about being able to open /dev/XXX and get a >unique allocated-on-the-fly instance of the device. Ahh, that: cloning. Cloning should happen at the directory lookup level in DEVFS, anything else becomes a Royal Mess -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message