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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:56:12 +1000 From: Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> > Isn't the devfs supposed to allow major/minor-less devices? I seem to > recall that for some devices major/minor number were used anywas since > userland code used it (mounted filesystems e.g.). For ptys this should be > no problem. Devfs does allows major/minor-less devices. You could hack the tty driver to make use of this. Check out the devfs FAQ at: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/devfs.txt This is actually a bad thing, since there's been a lot of talk about using major/minor numbers as part of a tty locking scheme. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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