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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: conf.c and USL copyright at top 
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 13:28:42 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> >> tty_conf.c is more interesting.  It could be handled more dynamically
> >> like conf.c.  There isn't as much to gain because the analogue of the
> >> major numbers -- the line discipline numbers -- can't be avoided because
> >> there is no by-name user interface.
> 
> >Well, we solved the same thing in VFS with a linker-set...
> 
> Linker sets can't be used to sove problems related to magic numbers in
> the user interface.

Filesystems have a magic number as well.

What I meant was that we could register the line-disciplines along the
lines we register VFS's.

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