On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
> Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > Definitely. Plan 9 solution for devices is a bit awkward - the whole
> > #<character> notation looks like a kludge, but idea that you don't want
> > the whole /dev for everyone is _really_ sound. Example: for chroot jail
> > you want /dev/zero and possibly /dev/random, etc., but you don't want
> > /dev/hda there. Granularity should be better than all or nothing.
>
> Huh? We have this capability now:
>
> # ln /dev/xda6 ./glorp
> # ls -l
> total 0
> brw-r----- 2 root disk 13, 6 May 5 1998 glorp
With /dev on devfs? Yeah, right. Besides, what you want is an ability to
import _groups_ of devices. Which becomes a pain with ln.
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