Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | Date | Wed, 16 May 2001 03:01:49 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 15 May 2001 22:51, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > > If you want them all to inherit it - inherit from mountpoint. > > ..which is exactly what the device node ends up being. The implicit > mount-point. > > And which point, btw, it is completely indistinguishable to user > space whether the thing is implemented as a full filesystem, or > whether it's just that the device node exports a simple "lookup()" > that it passes down to the device driver. So this is also the point > where it becomes nothing but an implementation issue, and as such > it's much less contentious. > > Done right, they'll be automatic mount-points
Sounds like "treat it like a file and it acts like a file, treat it like a directory and it acts like a directory".
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