Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:51:01 +0100 From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. Message-ID: <4336.1046335861@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:12:29 PST." <20030227071229.GB2442@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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For now the focus is to make sure we don't run out of major numbers, and for that I don't see why we should not recognize some devices as sufficiently magic that we will not touch their majors. /dev/null, and /dev/zero are at the top of my list. -- 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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