Subject: Clone devices ...
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Stefan Grefen <grefen@hprc.tandem.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/28/1998 00:43:14
I've  just send-pr'ed a clone device driver (pr kern/6060).

To installl it just add option CLONE and pseudo-device   clonedev 
to your config file.

This does the same as a SYSVR4 clone-device.

The option CLONE enables clone support for ALL device drivers 
by a small change in specfs.
The device open function is called with an additional parameter,
which is a pointer to dev_t. If this changed than the open will
be for the changed device. 
This enables stuff like bpf to have just one device in /dev and should
simplify the compat-svr4 stuff.
BTW. Any device can be cloned, not just streams as in vanilla SYSVR4.

A clone device is also included.

For details see the man-page.

Stefan

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