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remove note about 'find' now that it's fixed.

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Julian Elischer 1995-04-20 22:02:05 +00:00
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@ -101,20 +101,18 @@ NOTES FOR RELEASE 1.1
2/ Attempts to unmount a devfs structure while you are 'IN' in will
result in a message "hanging vnode" and the system will panic.
(in fact I see this even not being in it :( )
3/ 'find /devfs -print' will only find the directories, and the devices
don't show up.. (?)... find /dev/fs -ls DOES show all the devices.
4/ the dates of all nodes is '0' i.e. 00:00 1st Jan 1970 UTC.
3/ the dates of all nodes is '0' i.e. 00:00 1st Jan 1970 UTC.
It appears 'time' in the kernel hasn't been started at the time that
the devfs is started up. (when the first device registers itself).
notably, the VFS hasn't been started yet either so the devfs has to be careful
to not use VFS features during probe time.
5/ many features are not present yet..
4/ many features are not present yet..
e.g. symlinks, a comprehensive registration interface (only a crude one)
ability to unlink and mv nodes.
6/ I'm pretty sure my use of vnodes is bad and it may be 'losing'
5/ I'm pretty sure my use of vnodes is bad and it may be 'losing'
them, or alternatively, corrupting things.. I need a vnode specialist
to look at this.
7/ The back and front node structures have become very similar with time
6/ The back and front node structures have become very similar with time
and I decided to merge them to a single structure,
which is called a "dev_name" struct, as they can be thought of
as the analogue of a directory entry, except that they are linked