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Re: Moving away from /dev ?



yOn Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Kevin S. Ho wrote:

> Would there be any interest in having GNU Mach and Hurd move way from 
> /dev  into having a kernel-provided translator that exports kernel symbols
> including devices?  

My main concern with this is that some Linux progs (eg sound) will look
for /dev/audio, /dev/cdrom and so on...

Matthew

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