Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Sat, 3 Jan 1998 11:36:54 +1100

James Mastros writes:
> > I've had a closer look and I think we can avoid creating an inode for
> > each /dev entry.
> Ahh, good. I'm currently writing a memfs (IE automaticly growing and
> shrinking fs in ram only (nonpersistant without userlevel help)); I'm going
> to finish it and then extend it to a devfs. I hope you share your inodeless
> plan with me... (hint, hint...)

I'm still working out how the VFS works. I'm not sure how much
commonality there would be between memfs and devfs. I was going to
evolve a testfs (where I can learn about things) to a devfs. However,
if you're set on writing one yourself...
Once I understand what I'm doing I can show you what I have in mind
;-)

Regards,

Richard....