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From: Colin Percival <cperciva@daemonology.net>
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Subject: auto-assign devfs ruleset numbers
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>Number:         60874
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [request] auto-assign devfs ruleset numbers
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    dougb
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 03 14:30:11 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Wed Feb 08 09:27:18 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Wed Feb 08 09:27:18 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Colin Percival
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-RC i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD fafnir.daemonology.net 5.2-RC FreeBSD 5.2-RC #2: Fri Jan 2 17:59:36 GMT 2004 cperciva@fafnir.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

>Description:

At present, devfs ruleset numbers must be specified.  This could cause 
problems with software which creates jails (with associated /dev mounts)
since two different applications might overwrite each other's rulesets.

It would be nice if devfs(8) and the associated kernel code had an
option for assigning an unused ruleset -- eg, 'devfs -m /foo/dev ruleset -1'
would result in the kernel finding an unused ruleset number in a given 
range (32-63, perhaps?) and assigning that ruleset number to the devfs.

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>Fix:
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>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 28 09:01:55 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Mark suspended awaiting patches. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=60874 
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed 
State-Changed-By: dougb 
State-Changed-When: Wed Feb 8 09:26:43 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  

Nine years and no patches. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->dougb 
Responsible-Changed-By: dougb 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Feb 8 09:26:43 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

I'm closing this one. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=60874 
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