Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: uml-patch-2.5.49-1 | Date | 26 Nov 2002 18:29:15 -0800 |
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Followup to: <200211261833.NAA02294@ccure.karaya.com> By author: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu said: > > I think /proc/mm would be better implemented as /dev/mm. > > What major and minor numbers should I assign to it? And what would be > the point of giving it a major and minor, anyway? >
Access control, ability to work in a chroot, ...
For major/minor, this is presumably a misc device (major 10) or, if you don't need module support, a kernel core device (major 1), and write to device@lanana.org to have a minor number assigned.
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