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Date:      Sun, 13 May 2001 23:23:26 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c 
Message-ID:  <12321.989789006@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 May 2001 14:12:37 PDT." <20010513141237.A63235@xor.obsecurity.org> 

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In message <20010513141237.A63235@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writes:

>I agree with this..
>
>>   Pending any significant issues, DEVFS will be made mandatory in
>>   -current on july 1st so that we can start reaping the full
>>   benefits of having it.
>
>=2E.but as for this, have you fixed the bugs where you can't re-mount a
>devfs to refresh it, or recreate a device node which was removed?

I have some code that does this sitting in my tree.  Part of my
trouble here is the lack of available mount options  - they come in
one 32-pack bit-map and it's full :-( 

The simple "unwhiteout" implementation is not affected by that of
course.


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