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Hiya


> I read that too. That appears to be just about all the information about
> the new devfs that there is,
> short of reading the source code.

If you look in /usr/share/doc (or someplace like that) there's a document
describing the rationale behind devfs and its implementation - it's geared
more towards programmers than end users, but I certainly found it useful.

Cheers,


--Jon

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