From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Apr 4 9: 0:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68D837B52D for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:00:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA11956 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:03:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA23818 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:00:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0A837BAD7 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA63652; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:59:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Terry Lambert , chris@calldei.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev References: <27929.954863811@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 04 Apr 2000 17:59:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:56:51 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > The other downside is that, unlike devfs contents, they'll get > > > just as stale just as fast as /dev gets out of date with the > > > currently running kernel and/or MAKEDEV. > > You expect the major/minor numbers for std{in,out,err} to change in > > the foreseeable future? > Uhm, why would they change ? They are just aliases for /dev/fd/[0-2] > after all... My point precisely. I got the impression that Terry was afraid they might get stale. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message