From owner-cvs-all Mon May 14 7:33: 9 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F0037B422; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f4EEWsg00151; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 07:32:54 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Robert Watson , Greg Lehey , Eric Melville , Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Destroying and remaking device nodes Message-ID: <20010514073254.J18676@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20846.989849297@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20846.989849297@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:08:17PM +0200 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Poul-Henning Kamp [010514 07:08] wrote: > > I intended to ignore the major and minor arguments in mknod(2), simply > treating it as a request to re-create the named node. It sounds nice, however that's a major POLA violation, no? How about using uprintf in the kernel to spit and curse at the user to use rm -W? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message