Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:12:45 +1000
Chris Smith writes:
> > Devfs supports sockets. You just create them from user space. It
> > doesn't cost anything extra, as sockets (and pipes) are just treated
> > as inodes to store. So even if you abolished sockets and pipes in
> > /dev, it wouldn't mean the devfs per-inode storage requirements would
> > be decreased.
>
> Yes, I realize that; and just after I sent this mail I realized that
> this is unnecessary given a persistence scheme for devfs. The only
> problem I hoped to solve was the need to create sockets for init,
> which sometimes need to be created before init actually starts. So
> forget I said that; just a random thought.
Recent versions of init create their sockets as required.
Regards,
Richard....
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