Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:42:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504190842.DAA04273@mpp.com> In-Reply-To: <199504190641.XAA01137@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 18, 95 11:41:25 pm
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> > I am about ready to let people hack at devfs. > > but one thing I'm not sure about: > > > > what is a good way for the devfs to appear? > > > > I personally favour something hierachical, > > such as: > > And who creates these symlinks/hardlinks? And why do we need them? > How much memory does all this devfs data structure take up? I have a question: what does the devfs file system get me, and why would I ever want to use it? From what I've seen so far, it just looks like a complicated way to access my /dev/* files. -- Mike Pritchard pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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