Re: How to make character devices in non spec-fs file systems

To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky%c2i.net@localhost>
Subject: Re: How to make character devices in non spec-fs file systems
From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:51:54 +0000

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:09:24AM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 > As some of you might now, I have a devfs port from FreeBSD. This
 > code does no longer work under NetBSD 5.0 because there are hooks
 > in the kernel file system code for VREG to do special things which
 > does not apply? How do I get around this? Using VFIFO for my
 > character devices?

Eh? I don't understand. Your character devices should be VCHR.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

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