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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:09:27 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys conf.h 
Message-ID:  <19743.934816167@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:13:09 BST." <199908161313.OAA77853@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> 

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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!


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