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. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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