Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world brokenbuilding fortunes ) )

[Matthew Jacob]

> >Isn't this throwing an awful lot onto init?
> 
> Not really...
> 
> The meta-daemon part is no different from keeping gettys in the air...
> 
> The devd thing consists of selecting on some magic fd and running a
> program when something happens.  This could be done with a getty
> like daemon too of course.

I was just thinking it could get tricky and have subtle ordering bugs of
new tty devices, changes to ttys and signals all about the same time.




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