Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:46:34 +0100 (GMT)


On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:

> > if you want a cd you can
> > open /dev/cd/ (or something similar) and go through anything in there.
> > That way you don't have to guess at the possible ways of connecting a
> > cd to the machine when you want to find them all.
>
> You can't directly because they come from different drivers. This
> scheme works because each of the CD-ROM drivers has it's own
> directory. To do what you want would require something clever with
> devfsd.

Or nothing particularly clever in userspace.

Matthew.

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