Now that I've committed a change which fixes that pesky lstat() panic in fdesc, I'd like to suggest that it replace the existing /dev/fd devices and /dev/std{err,in,out}. I've already got such a setup running on a test box: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 49583 25320 20297 56% / /dev/da0s1f 804119 697621 42169 94% /usr /dev/da0s1e 19815 840 17390 5% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev This fdesc mount is mounted with the `union' option. And a little demonstration of the 'lightness' of fdesc over our oodles-of-device-nodes: $ ls -l 3<&1 4<&1 9<&1 total 0 crw------- 1 chris tty 5, 0 Mar 18 05:02 0 crw------- 1 chris tty 5, 0 Mar 18 05:02 1 crw------- 1 chris tty 5, 0 Mar 18 05:02 2 crw------- 1 chris tty 5, 0 Mar 18 05:02 3 crw------- 1 chris tty 5, 0 Mar 18 05:02 4 dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel 512 Mar 18 04:38 5 dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel 512 Mar 18 04:38 6 dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel 512 Mar 18 04:38 7 crw------- 1 chris tty 5, 0 Mar 18 05:02 9 Compared to our 63 device nodes, I think this is much nicer. Any of you folks have feedback? -- |Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Using TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach. -- S. C. Johnson `------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message