From owner-cvs-all Tue May 15 1:25:52 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC29237B424; Tue, 15 May 2001 01:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4F8PUp30167; Tue, 15 May 2001 10:25:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Brian Somers Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_vnops.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 May 2001 01:07:07 BST." <200105150007.f4F077515172@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:25:30 +0200 Message-ID: <30165.989915130@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200105150007.f4F077515172@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers write s: >> phk 2001/05/14 01:20:47 PDT >> >> Modified files: >> sys/fs/devfs devfs_vnops.c >> Log: >> After a successfull poll of the cloning functions, match on the >> returned dev_t rather than the original name. >> >> This allows cloning from one name to another which is useful for >> /dev/tty and later for the pty's. >> >> Revision Changes Path >> 1.23 +7 -15 src/sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c > >Does this mean that I can catch ``open("/dev/tun")'' and clone (say) >/dev/tun100, returning that ? yes :-) We need a generic ioctl which returns the name of the device, so that we don't have weeds doing that by examining minor numbers popping up all over the place, but otherwise: have at it :-) -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message