Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: devfs | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 12 Nov 2002 10:43:41 +0100 |
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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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