Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:59:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > On 18 Jun 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Actually, there is. The /dev directory is a mapping table between the > > > kernel interface (as well as providing a store for permissions), and > > > devfs removes this. > > This is not as useful or important as you try to make it out to be. > Useful to whom? (Not you, I gather.)
If you start playing around with device names, expect severe application breakage.
Or maybe you have some interesting justification to start renaming /dev/tty* into other things?
Or lets rename /dev/null on a whim and see how useful that is.
-Dan
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