> Not necessarily a bad thing. procfs and devpts have these too
Nope. procfs shows processes (much of the rest is clutter that should go
away), and those have "logical" permissions: My processes belong to
me. devpts has no real existence, what it gives out are ephemeral pipes.
> > - Impacts system administration, making device managing a lot less Unixy
>
> This is not necessarily a bad thing.
As long as you want Unix, it is.
> > - What can be done with devfs can be done without it.
> Same can be said of kerneld/kmod. It's purely a convenience factor. But
> there we are, kmod is in the kernel.
OK, I do use modules/kmod heavily. Point taken.
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