Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> NOTE! We do have an alternative: if we were to just make block device 
>> nodes support "readdir" and "lookup", you could just do
>> 
>> 	open("/dev/sda/1" ...)
>> 
>> and it magically works right. I've wanted to do this for a long time, but 
>> every time I suggest allowing it, people scream.
> 
> Hm, that would be nice.  I don't remember seeing it being proposed
> before, what are the main complaints people have with this?

Couldn't the partitions go under "/dev/sdaX/{1,2,3}" and solve the same
problem without doing magic on the devices?

M.

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