Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 21:55:03 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cloned open support Message-ID: <20011007215318.T530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <3BC0BF69.1E231F9D@mindspring.com>
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > Uhm, Brian... > > > > We have cloned devices already... > > > > What exactly is it that you want to implement ? > > Probably per open instance data; he was working with the > vmware2 code, wasn't he? Or was that someone else? > > Per open instance data is needed to support multiple > instances of vmware running simultaneously, since it > does not know to ask for sequentially increasing device > names. This is already possible by substituting a new 'struct file' for the device file. See streamsopn() in dev/streams/streams.c. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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