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SubjectRe: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.990617172848.17421E-100000@cu.mol.plethora.net>
By author: Daniel Taylor <dante@plethora.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> If there is no policy involved in syscall numbers, Major/Minor assignments
> and /proc entries, THEN THERE IS NO POLICY SET BY DEVFS EITHER.
>
> C'mon guys, some consistency in the opposition at least.
>
> Daniel Taylor
>

Actually, there is. The /dev directory is a mapping table between the
kernel interface (as well as providing a store for permissions), and
devfs removes this.

The equivalent level of indirection for syscall numbers is libc.

-hpa
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