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Le mar 12/11/2002 à 10:32, Ian Molton a écrit :
> On 11 Nov 2002 20:50:39 -0500
> Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 20:32, Ryan Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Good heuristic, except Al would not use devfs in either case :)
>
> Personally I love devfs. I've not looked at its internals, but its never
> failed me yet, and I like the way /dev only contains stuff that actually
> exists.

I'm wondering if a totally userspace solution could replace devs ?
Something using hotplug + sysfs and creating directories/nodes as they
appear on the system. This way, the policy (how do I name what) could be
moved out of the kernel.

Xav

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