Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:27:32 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cloned open support Message-ID: <21534.980778452@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:22:54 PST." <200101291422.f0TEMs451812@mobile.wemm.org>
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In message <200101291422.f0TEMs451812@mobile.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: >> But but but... we already *have* cloning Peter. It doesn't need >> a dedicated minordevice and it works for everything but vinum(4), >> and that is not because it cannot do what vinum(4) needs, but >> because vinum(4) needs somebody to do it. > >Who said anything about vinum? I did. I'm puzzled at what it is that Brian wants to do which cannot be done with our current cloning code. I was afraid that mentioning things DEVFS/clone can/cannot do would trigger a pointless digression into who is responsible for adding DEVFS support to vinum, I mentioned that specifically as a premptive strike :-) -- 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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