Question about network interface naming and devfs(5)!
Ermal Luçi
ermal.luci at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 21:40:28 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:01:18PM +0200, Ermal Lu?i wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > it seems that devfs(5) is not consistent with network interface naming feature.
> >
> > Network interface naming is offered by ifconfig $interface name $name.
> > This feature is really helpful to distinguish interfaces properly in a
> > machine and helps in scripting things.
> > The problem is that the ioctl that renames the device advertises it as
> > an interface arrival event which devfs does not handle and such you
> > have inconsistence between ifconfig output and the information in
> > devfs.
> >
> > Are there any plans to fix this or is there any issue for not making
> > devfs(5) aware of network interfaces events?!
>
> I haven't dealt with it because a) there's no way to rename entries
> which currently means you've have to destroy the current entry and add
> a completely new one which would break applications using the devfs
> entries across renames and b) I think the devfs entries are a mistake and
> should die.
Can't it be made to behave like a real file system?!
Meaning to have reference count for its devices/entries so the
entry/descriptor is kept open till the last close() is performed!
Ermal
>
> -- Brooks
>
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