On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:01:56PM +0300, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> On 2010-04-14, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > First, I think we shall sort dirent->dd_dlist so that symlinks are
> > located before any other entries, and allow for duplication of
> > any name with the name of symlink.
>
> What will ha
On 2010-04-14, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> First, I think we shall sort dirent->dd_dlist so that symlinks are
> located before any other entries, and allow for duplication of
> any name with the name of symlink.
What will happen when user deletes a symlink covering a device?
Uncovering the device may
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:20:00PM +0300, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> On 2010-04-14, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > > Otherwise sounds reasonable suggestion. However changes are needed in
> > > devfs. Currently devfs_populate_loop() is not along the make_dev*()
> > > code path but make_dev(9) increases a
On 2010-04-14, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > Otherwise sounds reasonable suggestion. However changes are needed in
> > devfs. Currently devfs_populate_loop() is not along the make_dev*()
> > code path but make_dev(9) increases a generation counter and
> > devfs_populate_loop() gets called sometimes la
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:49:13PM +0300, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>
> Thank you for your comments.
>
> On 2010-04-14, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > The make_dev_credf() signature can be changed to return int error code
> > instead of void, and a flag, lets call it MAKEDEV_CHECKNAME, added,
>
> make_
Thank you for your comments.
On 2010-04-14, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> The make_dev_credf() signature can be changed to return int error code
> instead of void, and a flag, lets call it MAKEDEV_CHECKNAME, added,
make_dev_credf() returns struct cdev *, not void.
> that specifies that make_dev_cred
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 06:53:39PM +, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> Author: jh
> Date: Tue Apr 13 18:53:39 2010
> New Revision: 206560
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/206560
>
> Log:
> - Ignore and report duplicate and empty device names in
> devfs_populate_loop()
> instead of c
Author: jh
Date: Tue Apr 13 18:53:39 2010
New Revision: 206560
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/206560
Log:
- Ignore and report duplicate and empty device names in devfs_populate_loop()
instead of causing erratic behavior. Currently make_dev(9) can't fail, so
there is no way to
