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The beginning of the end for devfs

The beginning of the end for devfs

Posted Sep 25, 2003 22:02 UTC (Thu) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865)
In reply to: The beginning of the end for devfs by ppedroni
Parent article: The beginning of the end for devfs

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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