Date: 28 Mar 2000 14:28:33 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev Message-ID: <xzpsnxbxor2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Chris Costello's message of "Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:06:32 -0600" References: <20000317230632.I24374@holly.calldei.com>
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Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> writes:
> Now that I've committed a change which fixes that pesky
> lstat() commit in fdesc, I'd like to suggest that it replace the
> existing /dev/fd devices and /dev/std{err,in,out}. I've already
> got such a setup running on a test box:
I tried this and got some weird problems - some programs seemed to
have trouble accessing other device nodes in /dev (non-fdesc ones).
Not much of an error report, I know, but it's been a rough week and I
didn't bother to write anything down. The problems went away when I
unmounted the fdesc file system.
Anyway, since /dev/std* never change, how about having fdesc *only*
handle the /dev/fd/* stuff, so you can (non-union) mount it on /dev/fd
and let /dev/std* be either symlinks to /dev/fd/[012] or plain old
static device nodes like they're now?
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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