Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:25:49 +1000

Dan Hollis writes:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> > At some level, that's why I don't like devfs; it doesn't do enough, and
> > at the same time it does too much (it puts too much policy into the
> > kernel --- namely the device names, which is somethign the kernel should
> > be agnostic about).
>
> This argument invites scrapping all of procfs.

Yes. This is one of the most annoying things in this debate, and seems
very hypocritical. If people want to use the purist argument against
devfs, then they should be consistent. Get rid of procfs (at least,
all the non-process stuff), autofs and knfsd.

Look to devfs as a way of cleaning up procfs instead. Move all the
non-process stuff into devfs. That way we can get back to a procfs the
way it was intended.

Regards,

Richard....

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