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Date:      17 Aug 1999 10:25:53 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc:        "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys conf.h
Message-ID:  <xzpg11istim.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: "David Schwartz"'s message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:13:23 -0700"
References:  <000001bee856$15352af0$021d85d1@youwant.to>

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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:
> 	I'm sure I'm missing something here, but can't you make things like
> /dev/vty a sort of 'magic symlink' that acts as if it were a symlink to the
> 'next' device? That way, every open would give a new device, and
> fork/dup/close would work right automatically.

You still need numbered nodes, or a lot of stuff will stop working
(init, X, talk, write, wall, w...)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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