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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:33:11 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: what is devfs? 
Message-ID:  <199909210133.TAA22035@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:22:36 %2B0700." <37E6DDDC.403569A5@butya.kz> 
References:  <37E6DDDC.403569A5@butya.kz>  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909201329300.20959-100000@sasami.jurai.net> 

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In message <37E6DDDC.403569A5@butya.kz> Boris Popov writes:
: 	Why not to create a simple 'devfs' device ? devfsd can sleep at 
: polling it and devfs device itself can provide hooks in the kernel to
: register all important events and pass them to devfsd.

That is one option.  However, a more general solution would benefit
other applications as well.

Warner


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