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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 tytso@mit.edu wrote: > 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. I see at least two possible solutions - dynamic major/minors or using another design for the locking system. I am not familiar with the reasons for using major/minor-pair for locking so I don't know if another solution is feasable. Do you have any pointers for additional reading? :-) Peter - 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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