Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:49:51 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cloning network interfaces Message-ID: <23806.992285391@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:40:54 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010611143920.50008G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010611143920.50008G-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe rt Watson writes: >> http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/gif.diff >> >> has been updated. I'm still thinking about adopting the NetBSD >> SIOIF{CREATE,DESTORY} interface. > >An advantage to also supporting the ioctl interface is that it permits >interface cloning to be used on systems where devfs is not used, or where >there are parts of the system where devfs is unavailable (i.e., various >forms of chroots). I think devfs is cool and all, but given the existance >of fairly sensical non-devfs ways to do things, I'm tempted suggest >supporting them also. As I already said: a device with no other precense in /dev has only "quick&dirty" reasons for using DEVFS cloning. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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