Re: Devices.

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

>> You can run devpubd.  When a wedge and thus the dk* unit attaches,
>> it runs the 01-makedev hook that creates the device node in /dev.
> That's not a "mode".  It's a clunky userland daemon that tries to
> make up for the fact that we don't have a devfs.

Your wording is heavily biased.

To bias in the other direction: I take it you'd rather have that policy
hardwired into the kernel, where it can't be changed without
kernel-hacking expertise and a reboot, and any bug takes down the whole
system, rather than in userland, where it can be changed anytime, and
bugs just cause that one piece to break?

I would rather have the userland version.   "Mechanism, not policy."

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