Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 03:53:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Nathan Hand wrote:
> I suspect that if you replaced your node creation code with code to > communicate to a user space daemon, and then that user space daemon > created the node instead, you'd garner more support.
The only problem here is, how do you detect when a user attempts to access a device node that doesn't currently exist? Yes, you could just have all of them already there, but then you're back to thousands of files in /dev... Although I personally do like the idea of having subdirectories under /dev for things that make sense...
Stephen
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