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SubjectRe: My $0.02 on devd and devfs
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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