Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) )

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
>"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
>> 
>> Yea... been hearing that for 4 years... one of it's big short comings is
>> that it needs a persistent backing store for this.  Sounds like this C
>> program could fullfill one of the missing parts of devfs :-)

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).


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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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