devfs

[Oliver Fromme]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
 > What I'd like to see is a twofold scheme:  A virtual devfs, plus 
 > udev-alike functionality:
 > 
 > - The devfs will show all existing devices with their standard names, and 
 > only those.
 > - have userland set permissions and create aliases (links?)

That reminds me a little bit of how Solaris does it:
/dev contains only symlinks to the actual (physical)
device specifications which are located in /devices.
Do you have something similar in mind?

Best regards
   Oliver

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