Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:00:45 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> At some level, that's why I don't like devfs; it doesn't do enough, and > at the same time it does too much (it puts too much policy into the > kernel --- namely the device names, which is somethign the kernel should > be agnostic about).
So does /proc. Indeed the unix purist element use sysctl which keeps the name space seperate. We have a /proc, it works, purist or otherwise.
Alan
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