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To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
Subject: Re: what is devfs? 
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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <37E6DDDC.403569A5@butya.kz> Boris Popov writes:
: 	Why not to create a simple 'devfs' device ? devfsd can sleep at 
: polling it and devfs device itself can provide hooks in the kernel to
: register all important events and pass them to devfsd.

That is one option.  However, a more general solution would benefit
other applications as well.

Warner


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