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SubjectRe: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> explicit about what they are attached to. For example, we might have a
> device name vaguely like:
> /kernel/devices/pci/adaptec2980_0/id0/lun0/part1
> ...and then having a user-mode daemon make symlinks from /dev/sda1, or
> /dev/disks/<fslabel>, or /dev/scsi/disks/*, or whatever new experimental
> naming scheme that people want to experiment with.

I fail to see any difference between devfs and what you're proposing
except the mount point.

> In the end, even if we agree that /proc should be cleaned up, that
> doesn't mean we should put other code which makes similar design
> choices/mistakes into the kernel. It isn't hypocritical to say that
> both approaches are bad, and while we do need to fix /proc at some
> point, that isn't an excuse for devfs.

So whats the excuse for devpts then? It mounts under /dev/pts.

-Dan


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