Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:55:59 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> At some level, that's why I don't like devfs; it doesn't do enough, and
> at the same time it does too much (it puts too much policy into the
> kernel --- namely the device names, which is somethign the kernel should
> be agnostic about).
This argument invites scrapping all of procfs.
-Dan
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