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

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Masao Uebayashi wrote:

>> I think that Joerg's proposal doesn't prevent you from doing what you want, 
>> though I don't think it helps, either.  He suggested that /dev/uuid and 
>> /dev/label just have symlinks to the usual device file, so no user-level 
>> daemons would be involved.
> 
> He said it has to be done in userland daemon. :)
> 
The userland daemon creates the symlinks but not the device files, I thought.


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