>DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> said:
>> An opinion about /dev :
>>
>> In the old system /dev is a collection of "links" from
>> filenames to device numbers (major:minor).
>>
>> With devfs it could be a collection of links from
>> filenames to /devfs/* entries.
>
>By whom/how are permissions handled? Even if it's symlinks, the original
>files in /devfs have to carry them (you can't follow symplinks to files you
>can't access directly!). And that means the kernel has to know how to set
>up permissions for a new device when it appears, and remember the settings
>from one boot to the next. Gross. And a kludged initscript that sets them
>up on each boot is even worse. As bad as the much-maligned MAKEDEV, but run
>_each_ boot, so much more critical.
Oops, I forgot that symlinks have no permissions...
And even if they had , it wouldn't work anyway :-(
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