Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:13:16 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Controlling devices and device namespaces |
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> At least with a recent modern distro I can't imagine this to be an > issue. I expect we could have a kernel build option that removed the > mknod system call and a modern distro wouldn't notice.
A few things beyond named pipes will break. PCMCIA I believe still depends on ugly mknod hackery of its own. You also need it for some classes of non detectable device.
Basically though you could.
> For migration with direct access to real hardware devices we must treat > it as hardware hotunplug. There is nothing else we can do.
That is demonstrably false for a shared bus or a network linked device. Consider a firewire camera wired to two systems at once. Consider SAN storage.
Alan
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