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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>: 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).
>
>Yes.  I'd like to see this in the future.  There is no reason to have
>pccardd after the cut over to the new code.  I don't think there is a
>reason to have both devd and usbd.  They all just do things when
>devices come and go.

And we don't really need YAD when we have init hanging around doing
nothing for its keep anyway...

I would really like to see the devd functionality to live in init
and at the same time I wouldn't mind if init were taught to keep
important programs running, things like sshd, inetd, syslogd and
similar should be restarted if they die.

No, I don't want sysV runlevels or the weird shit AIX has.  I'm sure
a clean and sensible way can be found, if some mental energies are
poured into the problem.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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