Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:33:32 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> Sigh. Let me try again. The fact that people are arguing about names
> means that it is clear the kernel should *not* be dictating what shows
> up in /dev. That should be done by a user-mode daemon. Like it or not,
> the names in /dev *are* policy, and kernel should not be dictating
> policy. Therefore, the kernel should not be deciding what names appear
> in /dev. Q.E.D.
Its dictating it with devpts.
-Dan
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