Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 17:28:01 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980315172722.3601C-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199803152219.OAA12091@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Makedev will (god willing) not be a standard part of the system in 3.0; > > > device nodes will appear and disappear by magic. > > > > > > (I am, incidentally, not kidding.) > > > > Kind of like boot -r under Solaris... Right? Or will these device > > nodes appear when a new kernel is built, like DEC UNIX? > > The nodes are completely dynamic; when a device is found (eg. at boot > time, or when a PCCARD is inserted, or when a PCI LKM is loaded, or > whenever) they appear, and when a device goes away (card removed, etc.) > they disappear. Mike, Will it still be possible to create/use device nodes with mknod, etc, elsewhere in the file system? Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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