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Re: Locking of serial devices and devfs



Previously Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> ... until one uses a lean version of devfs, which doesn't have these
> numbers, but just uses the pathname instead. Why design for a fragile system
> ? Device names aren't going away.

Using just names you loose since a single device can show up as multiple names.

Wichert.

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