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The beginning of the end for devfs

The beginning of the end for devfs

Posted Sep 25, 2003 6:32 UTC (Thu) by Frej (subscriber, #4165)
Parent article: The beginning of the end for devfs

Mandrake does enable it as default, not sure if they are a major dist though ;).


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The beginning of the end for devfs

Posted Sep 25, 2003 8:17 UTC (Thu) by ppedroni (subscriber, #6592) [Link]

> Mandrake does enable it as default, not sure if they are a major dist
> though ;).

And it even works out mostly right. I never understood why everyone was so much against it.

The beginning of the end for devfs

Posted Sep 25, 2003 22:02 UTC (Thu) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865) [Link]

There were a number of long-standing security issues with the earlier implementations, IIRC. And I think that people also objected to having a device naming scheme within the kernel.

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