shutdown). There are still problems with device access and a PR will be
filed.
- Kill checkalias(). Allow multiple vnodes to reference a single device.
- Don't play dangerous tricks with block vnodes to ensure that only one
vnode can describe a block device. Instead, prohibit concurrent opens of
block devices. As a bonus remove the unreliable code that prevents
multiple file system mounts on the same device. It's no longer needed.
- Track opens by vnode and by device. Issue cdev_close() when the last open
goes away, instead of abusing vnode::v_usecount to tell if the device is
open.
The general trend is to remove it from all kernel interfaces and
this is a start. In case the calling lwp is desired, curlwp should
be used.
quick consensus on tech-kern
For the benefit of linux emulation create a new minor device '2'
which is a ptmx with linux semantics. Linux changes the permissions
of the slave pty upon creation, not when grantpt(3) is called. The
glibc linux grantpt(3) checks that the pty is on ptyfs, and if it is,
it does nothing. To make use of this fix:
mknod /emul/linux/dev/ptmx c 165 2
chmod 666 /emul/linux/dev/ptmx
This is a lot simpler than copying a bunch of code and creating a
ptmx device just for the benefit of linux emulation.
1. make fileops const
2. add 2 new negative errno's to `officially' support the cloning hack:
- EDUPFD (used to overload ENODEV)
- EMOVEFD (used to overload ENXIO)
3. Created an fdclone() function to encapsulate the operations needed for
EMOVEFD, and made all cloners use it.
4. Centralize the local noop/badop fileops functions to:
fnullop_fcntl, fnullop_poll, fnullop_kqfilter, fbadop_stat
the code that `knows' about /dev/[pt]tyXX names (the BSD ptys) into a separate
file. Make an interface to be used by the tty creating provider. The code
to enable old PTY searching via ptm is enabled via COMPAT_BSDPTY, and it
is turned on by default on all kernels that have compatibility options enabled.
hannken