Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:12:45 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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Chris Smith writes: > > Devfs supports sockets. You just create them from user space. It > > doesn't cost anything extra, as sockets (and pipes) are just treated > > as inodes to store. So even if you abolished sockets and pipes in > > /dev, it wouldn't mean the devfs per-inode storage requirements would > > be decreased. > > Yes, I realize that; and just after I sent this mail I realized that > this is unnecessary given a persistence scheme for devfs. The only > problem I hoped to solve was the need to create sockets for init, > which sometimes need to be created before init actually starts. So > forget I said that; just a random thought.
Recent versions of init create their sockets as required.
Regards,
Richard....
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