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Re: devfs support in ofpath: criteria for patches



On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:44:22AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> 
> Hey Ethan,
> 
> I take it that your not completely happy with devfs? Is this something
> more than long path names?

the long ugly names are a big part of it.  also the lack of
persistence sucks as well.  i must be able to use chmod/chown on
/dev/* files and have it stick, without stupid kludges like tarring
/dev and restoring at boot, or running some silly daemon as root to
fsck with them.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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