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In message <20031117193104.GH35957@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:

>I just wanted to support the way that Linux does stuff.  Are you saying
>that it's taken care of?

All the cases I've heard off have been related to devices, and the
"clone" stuff in DEVFS seems to handle that for people.

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