Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:13:31 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: My $0.02 on devd and devfs |
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David Harris wrote: > > > > Depending on the kind of daemon used, it would either be respawned or > > the info would get queued up until it is restarted. I don't think it's > > particularly anything to worry about, though... > > If you re-spawn the daemon and it gets to see all of the events that have been > stored up, it still does not have a proper view of the device configuration. > The kernel really has to be smarter than just issuing events and buffering > them. >
It doesn't have to -- the additional information it needs is in the file system.
> Then doesn't mean that the kernel has to store the device configuration and > you've implemented a sub-set of the underlying device namespace/tracker that > devfs offers?
No.
-hpa
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