Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 18:30:55 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: julian@ref.tfs.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504190830.SAA28041@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I take it that you mean flat vs hierarchial. How about both :-) :: >mount -t devfs -o flat /dev >mount -t devfs -o hier /dev Programs should use canonical names so the user can't decide everything here. >I personally have always prefered the flat scheme of /dev (with possible >exceptions for /dev/fd/*). This is a religious issue, I have spoken my >religion. I like it fairly flat. There certainly shouldn't be subdirectories for pieces of one device. >> The naming is not implimented yet because it would be the >> responsibility of the SLICE code to do the naming.. the DEVFS doesn't care.. >> it just shows what it's told to show by the device driver (or the slice >> code in this case). /dev/driver_name/all_devices_handled_by_this_drive_in_one_directory is easiest for drivers, but not quite what is wanted by programs. How should ps find and name tty devices? There aren't enough letters for a 2 letter namespace. Bruce
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