Re: My $0.02 on devd and devfs

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:20:36 -0400

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Khimenko Victor wrote:
> See above. Try to turn on printer, do `cat something > /dev/printer/0` with
> devfs and explain how it'll be handled with devd.

Are you implying here that /dev/printer/0 is created at open() time?
IMHO that is a bad idea.

Jeff

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