Messages in this thread | | | From | jhohertz@golden ... | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:26:24 -0500 | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev |
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What's wrong with MAKEDEV? Works great.... gives you every device node you need and more. You can symlink too.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. My 1/50th of a dollar.
Joe
On Jan 7, 1:15am, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev > Richard Guenther wrote: > > - the d_count handling can not be done in the usual way, because (as we > > want to be able to umount/mount proc several times and of cause keep > > the proc-tree) the mount/umount syscalls and followups have ugly (dont > > rembember all) superblock->d_root handling. Ah yes, and of cause > > dentry->d_sb needs to change automagically, because proc has no real > > device id.... (partial fixes exist). > > You'd also want a devfs to be mounted multiple times with different > contents. Many systems use chrooted environments with subsets of /dev > in them, with the appropriate permissions and so on. This needs to be > possible. > > J >-- End of excerpt from Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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