From: david parsons <orc@pell.portland.or.us>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:43:07 -0700 (PDT)
> /dev is a database of the devices that are attached to the system.
> The system should publish, in a usable without black magic form,
> this database.
>
> Well, here's the executive summary on the other side. /dev is *not* the
> database of the devices that are attached to the system.
And that's the point where it's meaningless to argue. I want the
kernel to tell me what it knows, and I'll not presume to say what
you want (though some of the alternatives you've mentioned seem like
using a ton of baling wire and duct tape to replace an ounce of
epoxy cement.)
That's fine, you want something --- but that doesn't change /dev into
something that it's not. /dev is a directory, not a database.
The question of whether or not the functionality you want is reasonable
is entirely separable from whether or not devfs is a clean way of
getting that functionality.
- Ted
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