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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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