> Isn't the devfs supposed to allow major/minor-less devices? I seem to
> recall that for some devices major/minor number were used anywas since
> userland code used it (mounted filesystems e.g.). For ptys this should be
> no problem.
Devfs does allows major/minor-less devices. You could hack the tty
driver to make use of this. Check out the devfs FAQ at:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/devfs.txt
This is actually a bad thing, since there's been a lot of talk about
using major/minor numbers as part of a tty locking scheme.
- Ted
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