>On 7 Oct 1999, I wrote:
>> devfs simply provides a way for the kernel to tell userland what
>> devices it has, using the de facto standard naming conventions
>> that everybody uses.
>
> Not everyone uses that, in fact, Solaris
Read the last sentence as ``the de facto standard naming conventions
ON LINUX that everybody uses.'' Bringing Solaris into the argument
is pretty pointless, because it already has a (really really badly
implemented) devfs.
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david parsons \bi/ The best devfs I've seen is the one on Linux.
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