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SubjectRe: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
   Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 07:41:46 +1000 (EST)
From: Nathan Hand <nathanh@chirp.com.au>

I like this suggestion. It opens the door to having an /etc/dev.conf
with permissions, ACLs, post-scripts, user-defined naming schemes (I
think that would solve most people's problems immediately :-).

But isn't this remarkably similar to the kerneld idea?

The big difference is that kernel code had to block waiting for kerneld
to do something. In this case, the kernel code merely has to post a
notification to the daemon that a new device exists, and it doesn't have
to wait for the daemon to do something about it.

The only issue is that you then lose /dev on filesystems which don't
support UNIX nodes (ie devfs on ms-dos partitions). Though there are
other ways of achieving the same effect, so it's no big loss.

That's what the umsdos filesystem is for....

- Ted



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