-------- In message <20141127095229.GO17068_at_kib.kiev.ua>, Konstantin Belousov writes: >On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:41:27PM -0800, Davide Italiano wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:37 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> > On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:00:14 AM Davide Italiano wrote: >> >> One of my personal goals for 11 is to get rid of cloning mechanism >> >> entirely, and pty(4) is one of the few in-kernel drivers still relying >> >> on such mechanism. >Why this is good thing to do ? I must have missed this detail back in august. I checked my archive of incoming email and I couldn't find any reason or argument for removing dev_clone mechanism, and I would very much object to its removal, unless a very compelling reason exists ? I'll admit that the name is slightly misleading, it is really a "dev_ondemand" facility which can also be used for cloning, and because all the initial uses were cloning it got that name. (I have no soft feelings for the pty driver) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Thu Nov 27 2014 - 12:46:44 UTC
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