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Re: Locking of serial devices and devfs



Le jeu, jun 21, 2001, à 04:09:53 +0200, Wichert Akkerman a écrit:
> 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.

Hmmm... then, we have hardlinks and inodes. Can't we index by inode, then ?

	-- Cyrille


-- 
Grumpf.



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