Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup) | Date | Mon, 21 May 2001 22:14:30 +0200 |
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On Monday 21 May 2001 19:16, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > What I'd like to see: > > - An interface for registering an array of related devices (almost > always two: raw and ctl) and their legacy device numbers with a > single userspace callout that does whatever /dev/ creation needs to > be done. Thus, naming and permissions live in user space. No "device > node is also a directory" weirdness...
Could you be specific about what is weird about it?
> ...which is overkill in the vast majority of cases.
-- Daniel
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