Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:59:43 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> > On 18 Jun 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Actually, there is. The /dev directory is a mapping table between the
> > > kernel interface (as well as providing a store for permissions), and
> > > devfs removes this.
> > This is not as useful or important as you try to make it out to be.
> Useful to whom? (Not you, I gather.)
If you start playing around with device names, expect severe application
breakage.
Or maybe you have some interesting justification to start renaming
/dev/tty* into other things?
Or lets rename /dev/null on a whim and see how useful that is.
-Dan
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