From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 13:37:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA06516 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 13:37:27 -0700 Received: from linux4nn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA06459 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 13:36:08 -0700 Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA11587; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:48:10 +0200 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA29332 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:30:55 +0100 Received: by iafnl.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA32623 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Sun, 23 Apr 1995 20:40:35 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA00753; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 18:51:47 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199504221651.SAA00753@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 18:51:46 +1596657 (MET DST) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, bde@zeta.org.au, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504211817.UAA01523@knobel.GUN.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Apr 21, 95 08:17:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1390 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I agree with Bruce. I would have agreed with Rod, but the simple fact is > > that our /dev directory is getting very large and bloated, and this will only > > get worse. Perhaps /dev/disks/* and /dev/ttys/*, etc, might be a way to > > organize things (in other words, by device class). I prefer to not minimize > > the number of levels as much as possible, while still providing some > > organization. > > If you want to group the devices, so that a listing of /dev > doesn't get too long, why not taking Sun's / SVR4's naming > scheme ? It's something like a standard in the Unix market. > > 6 /dev/sad > 34 /dev/dsk > 0 /dev/fd > 98 /dev/pts > 34 /dev/rdsk It sure makes sense to follow convention. Switching to and from different dialects is a pain we have to face more than enough. I personnally don't like the /devices idea and all the links etc that Solaris uses. Un*x was designed with compact names etc, everyone who needs self explanatory names is probably using the same OS. :-) [del ] > andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------