Subject: Re: dev/MAKEDEV not portable
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@mindbender.serv.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 12/18/1997 16:43:38
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 07:49:14 -0800 
 "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> wrote:

 > Perhaps it's time again to think of a dynamically built "devfs", where
 > the devices are automagically "built" by the devices the kernel finds
 > at autoconfiguration time.  I believe the FreeBSD guys have a beta of
 > this in FreeBSD-current.

...and the problems associated w/ "devfs" have yet to be addressed.  For
example, what determines the ownership/permissions of the devices?

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