Try to read `/etc/init.d/{drv,dev}*' one of these days on Solaris.
> Strange. I've been running OSS on my PC for quite some time, no problems
> there. No devfs in sight, done it way before devfs was dreamed up even.
Maybe it's because you don't read what you reply to ?
The claim was that OSS would break if you used modules along with a script
that clears the /dev hierarchy based on what is really available (hint:
before the OSS module is loaded, those things are not available so the
devices would be removed, preventing the autoloading from kicking in).
> All of them handle them as files that have persistent permissions, AFAIK.
Oh yes! But persistence of the special-device-file is not necessarily
such a good idea when the underlying major/minor assignmment is dynamic.
Stefan
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