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    SubjectRe: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers
    On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:

    > It is the right way. The concept is still valid. Just extend my
    > example code. It wasn't meant to be complete, just enough to convey
    > the idea. Did I really have to spell that out?

    Why not improve slightly devfs to have subdirectories such as "cdroms" (by
    classes of devices ["it's a CDROM"], not classes of interfaces ["it's a
    cdrom which you plug through USB"]), which would contain symlinks to the
    directories which might hold cdrom devices ?
    (ie : /dev/cdroms having the following symlinks :
    /dev/ide/cd
    /dev/sr
    /dev/usb/cd
    ...
    )
    Now, a program wanting to enumerate cdroms would just do something in the
    lines of
    for cddir in readdir("/dev/cdrom"):
    for cd in readdir(cddir):
    #do something useful
    Whoopla, this is pretty much static, so it may very well belong to the tar
    solution, devfsd or an init script.

    -- Cyrille

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