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

Bruce Janson (bruce@staff.cs.usyd.edu.au)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:16:16 +1000

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:07:52 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
..
We know that. It also means devfs is superfluous. You might as well
have a devmgr process with no need for a devfs at all.
..

hpa,
I prefer devfs to a manually maintained /dev. As for how devfs would
compare with a hypothetical "devmgr", I will wait until someone produces
one. How would devmgr divine the current kernel/hardware configuration?

Cheers,
bruce.

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