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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:54:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: what is devfs?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990920185326.6478M-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <37E6DDDC.403569A5@butya.kz>

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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Boris Popov wrote:

> "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
> > 
> 	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.


what supplies the (arbitrarily assigned) major number to that device?
(chicken-egg)

julian




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