Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev (new idea)

Patrick St. Jean (psj@cgmlarson.com)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:19:36 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> (pat)> I'm thinking about just modifying the kerneld to look up a table
> (pat)> of them and have a short circuit in the devfs for a "file not
> (pat)> found on open" case.
>
> I think a sysctl or something like that would be good here. That would
> move the policy out of the kernel and unbundle it from the other aspects
> of devfs. Something like:
>
> sysctl( SEND_ENOENT_TO_KERNELD, "/dev" );
>

Anyone else like this idea for autoloading?

Pat

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