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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:02:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912151301300.22090-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <12235.945291289@critter.freebsd.dk>

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> >Isn't this throwing an awful lot onto init?
> 
> Not really...
> 
> The meta-daemon part is no different from keeping gettys in the air...
> 
> The devd thing consists of selecting on some magic fd and running a
> program when something happens.  This could be done with a getty
> like daemon too of course.

I was just thinking it could get tricky and have subtle ordering bugs of
new tty devices, changes to ttys and signals all about the same time.




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