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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
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Subject: Re: what is devfs?
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Boris Popov wrote:

> "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
> > 
> 	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.


what supplies the (arbitrarily assigned) major number to that device?
(chicken-egg)

julian




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