Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 1999 01:04:38 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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Hello,
> There is however second class of files which live in /dev, and for those > files the names are really up to the system administrator, and are a > matter between the whims of the system adminsitator and the various > configuration files which list those devices: /etc/inittab, /etc/fstab, > etc. Examples of such device names include names for disk drives, > tapes, cd-roms, and ttys, and so on. Indeed, this is why devfs can > use device names such as /dev/dsk/... instead of /dev/hda1 without > causing all hell to break loose.
Anyway, it's a good idea to make the kernel export information on all existing devices to user space, so that the user can run a program which takes all the devices and names them accordingly to the local policy.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Windows Error: 004 - Operator fell asleep while waiting."
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