On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, George wrote:
> The alternative to devfs is what we already have, a working (maybe not
> perfect, but working) /dev. And if you already have /dev (and use it),
> what's the point of wasting memory on devfs which would duplicate things?
Once upon a time we had a working (not perfect but working) aout-based
Linux systems. What was the point of switching to ELF? Lots of points. So
it is with devfs - it solves a lot of problems, all nicely documented in
Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README.
Regards,
Tigran.
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