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The return of devfs

Posted May 8, 2009 14:21 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: The return of devfs by pli
Parent article: The return of devfs

Please no. devfs was an abomination.

The lifetime rules of objects in devtmpfs are simple: the nodes are
created by the kernel, and that's all. It's just a bunch of automatic
mknod()s. Everything else is handled by udev, as now.

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