devfs vs udev/hotplug

esmith esmith at patmedia.net
Mon Apr 19 07:37:59 PDT 2004


What do people think of the udev/hotplug solution vs devfs? At first 
inspection, udev appears to be a little more Dragonfly-ish because of 
its placement in userland.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1893
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml





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