Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:12:06 +1100

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 12:00:34PM +0100, ketil@ii.uib.no wrote:
> But you want the devices that disappear during unloading of a kernel
> module to reappear when the module is reloaded. And you want to be able
> to mount/unmount the directory at will without having to run some script
> to configure the correct devices - don't you?

Yes, but the devfs already has the ability to remember non-existant devices
so that you can chmod a device that is yet to be added. Basically, my
'nocreate' flag to the filesystem could be called anything else and the
semantics of it should be (and I think can be) exactly what we want for
chrooted filesystems.

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