Re: Locking of serial devices and devfs
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:56:17PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Neither are device majors/minors unless you want to give up compatibility
> with other Unix (like) systems or perhaps even POSIX completely, at
> which point the kernel probably won't be called 'Linux' anymore.
Well, nothing requires those numbers to provide any meaningful information.
The Hurd supports major/minor numbers for device files, but they usually
just contain (0,0). tty works in a different, hurdish way.
Thanks,
Marcus
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