Re: Devlinks. Code. (Dcache abuse?)

From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 03:52:42 EST

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On Nov 19, 2001 14:47 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> - devfs puts a lot of miscellaneous stuff in the top level.
> I would want to group them into one namespace. e.g.:
> misc/memory/mem
> misc/memory/kmem
> misc/memory/zero
> misc/memory/null
> misc/random/random
> misc/random/urandom

Erm, what about the millions+ of scripts/apps that reference /dev/zero
or /dev/null?

Cheers, Andreas

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