Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:46:17 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> /proc/net, /proc/sys, and /proc/fs definitely doesn't belong in /dev. I
> would think that's pretty self-evident.

Do they belong in /proc either. BTW the kernel is definitely dictating
/proc policy. I would like to be able to change access to /proc for
security reasons.

Lets fix this in 2.3.x.

> Except that devfs isn't a mistake. It's the Right Thing[tm].
> That's you're opinion; it's not mine.

Its my opinion too.

-Dan

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