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SubjectRe: [RFC] devfs API


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Ryan Anderson wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:19:42PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > During the last couple of weeks I'd done a lot of digging in
> > devfs-related code. Results are interesting, and not in a good sense.
>
> >From an outsider point of view (and because nobody else responded), I
> think the big question here would be: Would you use it after this
> cleanup?
>
> If you say yes, I'd say that's a good sign in its favor.

The only way I'll use devfs is
* on a separate testbox devoid of network interfaces
* with no users
* with no data - disk periodically populated from image on CD.

And that's regardless of that cleanup - fixing the interface doesn't solve
the internal races, so...

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