On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:35:42AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> Why not a socket?  PF_XEN.  Requires no file system entries at all.

because then this would change the interface to the userland tools (here it's
just a path to change, or a symlink to add).
xen already requires 2 kernfs files, and this device. Others may show up in the
future.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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