On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > POLA! if we have persisten permissions and ownership, and we allow
> > renaming, then renaming should also be persistant... after the mount
> > again, da0c either no longer exists, or is no longer ttyd1... which
> > neither is an acceptable solution...
>
> I think at this stage you've gone overboard..
Gee, I'd have to agree on this one.
> part of the definition of devfs is that a device shows up on mount
> with it's canonical name.. On each new mount every time, even if you've
> mounted it in 10 different places.
Absolutely correct, canonical names only, why don't you try to rename
files in /proc? You've taken this one too far this time.
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