On 30 Mar 2000, david parsons wrote:
> So you're talking about have every driver known to man build their
> own little devfs and stacking it on top of the /dev heap?
see plan9. It's not quite like this. The effect is similar.
> * you'd want EVERY DRIVER to implement their very own little file
> system so it could automagically union-mount itself onto /dev?
> For some reason, ``code bloat'' is the very first phrase that
> came to my mind.
there's a whole lot less code bloat in plan9 than I see in the OSS Unix
community nowadays. I really think you should take a look. Even though we
don't use it, it's worth learning from.
ron
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