Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:44:19 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 10:26:07AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote: > a devmgr without kernel interaction would be a complicated, gross > hack. How would you handle dynamic devices with your devmgr? poll > every second for new devices? and what do you poll? Your devmgr has > to get the information about new/expired devices from somewhere - > so the kernel has to export this information somewhere. Why not in > the most logical way: directly to /dev?
There are a number of communication methods from the kernel to userspace: via a file in /proc, sysvipc (as kerneld used to), netlink sockets and RT signals. None of these impose a naming scheme upon /devices.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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