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C. Scott Ananian writes: > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 Roger Espel Llima <espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr> wrote: > > > > I would normally propose having a daemon do these things, but since it > > > is so simple, we might as well do it right in the kernel. > > > > I'm with you on that one. The generic cry of "do it in userspace" is > > good as a general rule, but here it makes it a lot more complicated for > > nothing. A daemon, whether it runs all the time or not, takes a lot > > more resources than the little kernel code needed for this. > > I disagree. I don't like the kernel playing with magic files. Someone > else will have to implement this if they want it. I agree. The kernel should not create files on discs unless explicitely asked to do so via the open(2)/mkdir(2)/mknod(2) family. Nor should it fiddle the permissions of stuff on disc unless explicitely asked to do so. It may be easy to do, but it's really unclean, IMO. Regards, Richard.... | ||||||||||||
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