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

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:45:31 -0700 (PDT)

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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> Thats absolutely identical to the devfs hooks. devfs is generating an fs
> from them, doing a usermode smart /dev is exporting the same data devfs
> builds on into user space and doing the hard thinking in user space.

So basically devfs might not solve every possible problem at the moment,
but it is certainly the correct infrastructure for solving problems.

-Dan

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