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Re: Moving away from /dev ?



Julian Morrison <julian.morrison@virgin.net> writes:

> A suggestion from a clueless newbie: have /dev be a translator driven file
> system, make stuff appear there and disappear, to reflect the actual devices
> attached to the system.

This is exactly what I would like to do also.

The attempt I once began foundered on the lack of adequate kernel
facilities to do it, but that's fixable.

Note that the contents of this magic /dev would look just like the
current /dev: a bunch of passive translators for the various devices.


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