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SubjectRe: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a lloc ation) )
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Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> said:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > Reasons against devfs:
> > - Permanent attributes are kludged on

> Not necessarily a bad thing. procfs and devpts have these too

Nope. procfs shows processes (much of the rest is clutter that should go
away), and those have "logical" permissions: My processes belong to
me. devpts has no real existence, what it gives out are ephemeral pipes.

> > - Impacts system administration, making device managing a lot less Unixy
>
> This is not necessarily a bad thing.

As long as you want Unix, it is.

> > - What can be done with devfs can be done without it.

> Same can be said of kerneld/kmod. It's purely a convenience factor. But
> there we are, kmod is in the kernel.

OK, I do use modules/kmod heavily. Point taken.
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