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SubjectRe: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers
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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