Request for PTY/devfs changes

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200701081750.59131.jhb at freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Monday 08 January 2007 14:29, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>Unfortunately the pty uses 'make_dev_cred' with a specific credential and that 
>credential reference is what is not getting released.

devfs needs to learn about that cred if the cdev is marked cheap.

>> In that case the cdev gets recycled quite fast if unreferenced.
>
>How does devfs know to recycle the cdev?  And will it recycle cdev's after 
>they are closed?

via the normal vnode cleaup.


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