Well, the other side of the equation has already been fixed. It's
called devfs.
> As most of you are quite aware of, I usually don't like putting things
> in the kernel. In particular, I believe devfs to be a bad idea.
Yes, I know you aren't one of the faithful ;-) However, I contend that
there are a number of problems that devfs *solves*. And it solves them
cleanly and efficiently with minimal fuss and minimal kernel bloat. I
really think you should read the documentation I wrote about it which
explains all the reasoning behind it (and some of the alternatives)
before you criticise it.
> However, in this particular case I have been persuaded to agree that
> pty's are sufficiently special -- they really act more like pipes or
> sockets than device nodes -- that a virtual filesystem is probably the
> right thing to do. I have tried to keep the memory requirements of
> this filesystem as small as possible.
As have I with devfs. I'll have a look at your VFS mods and see if I
can make use of it in devfs.
Regards,
Richard....
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