Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> This way, application programs that need fixed, compiled-in paths can
> just use /devfs and be guaranteed to work on both kinds of systems.
Alternatively, systems which don't have devfs mounted on /dev can simply
have symbolic links in /dev to the /devfs directory, and other systems
can mounted devfs on /dev.
That way you get to control which of the devfs devices are accessed by
normal programs, by manipulating /dev. Much like you do now.
-- Jamie
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