In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
>This was decreed but not agreed to. I don't use devfs and don't plan
>to use it until it works at least as well as specfs (if this is
>possible). I have noticed about 10 minor bugs in it despite only running
>it to test it every 6 months or so. Examples:
Why don't you report such findings then ?
>- file time updates are broken in several ways.
Details ?
>- stat() doesn't work right on devfs directories (st_size and st_blocks
> zero for all devfs files, but should be nonzero for directories).
Where is this requirement from ?
>- pathconf() doesn't work right on devfs directrories (_PC_NAME_MAX and
> _PC_PATH_MAX are unsupported, but must be supported for directories).
OK, that's a bug.
>- acd devices still have insecure modes (world readable).
That is not a fault in DEVFS but in the driver.
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