Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:48:48 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) Message-ID: <12188.945290928@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:44:44 MST." <199912152044.NAA63531@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199912152044.NAA63531@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <11260.945282326@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >: A "devd" program would solve 98% of what devfs could solve. It cannot >: solve the homebrew-a-vnode-for-the-root-fs problem. FreeBSD needs a >: "devd" program *anyway* because what good is dynamic devices if you >: can't do something intelligent with them when they appear (mount/ifconfig >: etc etc etc). > >Yes. I'd like to see this in the future. There is no reason to have >pccardd after the cut over to the new code. I don't think there is a >reason to have both devd and usbd. They all just do things when >devices come and go. And we don't really need YAD when we have init hanging around doing nothing for its keep anyway... I would really like to see the devd functionality to live in init and at the same time I wouldn't mind if init were taught to keep important programs running, things like sshd, inetd, syslogd and similar should be restarted if they die. No, I don't want sysV runlevels or the weird shit AIX has. I'm sure a clean and sensible way can be found, if some mental energies are poured into the problem. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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