>> Option 3 requires something like a devfs, which has been discussed
>> before; I recommend that nobody post about its pros or cons without
>> having read the past discussion on the subject.
> Anyone any idea when, and to which group, they were posted?

I would _guess_ it was on tech-kern.  When, all I'm sure of is that it
was more than about two months ago - long enough that it's rolled out
of the last-ten-weeks save of all incoming mail.

> Suggestions are that the email archive search facility is currently
> broken :-)

:-(

Poking with google indicates that tech-kern and tech-security talked
about it in September 1998 (I suspect the messages were sent to both)
and that current-users talked about it in January 1997 and October
1998, and possibly more - I didn't go through the whole list.  You
might have a look yourself:

http://www.google.com/search?num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=devfs&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=netbsd.org&safe=off

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