Review/Test: Pseudo-device unit number management patch

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:03:18AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
+> s/I/we/  Others have signed off on this model.  Maybe you could
+> explain how such a device would exist, and its exact semantics.  With
+> a cloning device that phk is talking about, you open /dev/foo, and
+> /dev/foo0, /dev/foo1, etc are automatically created.  This is how
+> things work on other systems for cloning devices.
+> 
+> One could argue the wisdom of making the tunnel device clonable (I
+> happen to agree with it, but I can see the oppsoing argument).
+> However, sensible cloning semantics have been well understood for
+> years.  BSD is very late to the party in not having these sorts of
+> devices before now.

Maybe more human-friendly way will be to create /dev/foo0 without
request and if someone will open /dev/foo0, device /dev/foo1 will be
created... Just an idea.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
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