Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:51:17 -0400 | | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) | | From | tytso@mit ... |
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:27:22 +1000 From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
Ted now seems to be advocating something like devfs but mounted on /devices, and have a daemon like devfsd populate/depopulate /dev. And I suspect he's advocating having /devices be non-useful (i.e. to look quite different than a reasonable /dev), just for the sake of denying people the ability to mount re-badged-devfs onto /dev.
No, I'm advocating that device inodes in /devices have names which are uniquely identify the device driver which registered the device plus the location on the bus. This is useful information which a user-mode daemon would need. If you make the names reflect a "reasonable" /dev, it makes the job of the user mode daemon much more difficult.
- Ted
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