Re: idea: vnconfig '-l' ?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     What we really need is devfs.  Device cloning itself is really easy, but
>     to do it right we want a direct file descriptor device interface so
>     the device can be assigned to the (private) file pointer instead of to
>     the (shared) vnode.   devfs is needed because when we bypass the vnode
>     the access and modified times will no longer get updated for devices
>     in a normal UFS based /dev filesystem.

would we care about these times?  I mean, would we *really* care?  On devfs, we'd lose this information on reboot as well.  Or we "simply" add a sidechannel to update a [am]time on fdesc access (maybe that would fix my mmap time issue?)

cheers
 simon

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