Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Aug 1998 13:56:59 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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It's pretty clear that UUIDs are the way to go, to achieve truly pluggable resources. But I think we're a long way off from there. (Jini is a step in the right direction. Does Jini use UUIDs?)
No one has addressed the issue of a canonical /dev. Could this be done as a user-level utility? ie. a program that, on bootup and iff /etc/RECONFIGURE exists, queries the kernel to see which device major and minor numbers exist, and name them accordingly? sorta like scsidev for all kernel devices.
With UUIDs and this canonical /dev generator, I don't see much need for devfs either. (canon /dev is sorta a middle step towards achieving UUID-style resource usage)
Jeff
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