Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:13:56 +1100

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 12:40:13PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Some applications actually stat file to see if it is special device,

Not many.

> and if it is, they handle it 'carefully'. You would break this ones.

Not unless a stat on a devlink returns appropriate information. An lstat
would return different information.

It shouldn't perform any differently to a symlink to a device in the
current scheme.

Now, if there is software out there that actually goes out looking for
block and char devices of certain major/minor numbers or whatever then you
fix them. They are probably being a bit rude doing that already.

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