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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