Re: (Semi-random) thoughts on device tree structure and devfs

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> [...].  That makes devfs responsible to resolve confliction, which in
> turn leads to some configuration thing, which I definitely want to
> avoid.

You need some kind of persistent state *somewhere*, to support chmod,
chown, mv, rm, etc.  Or are you proposing to break those?  That idea
strikes me as a pretty crippling regression.

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