> Linux had a devfs and [dropped] it. Now it has udevd(8). Most > likely the penguins had a reason for this.
Surely there are mailing list messages or something that outline that reason? (Not that I have any idea where they'd be, but don't we have at least a few people with feet in both camps?) > udevd(8) gives the user land control over device enumeration. Maybe > no bad idea. (Disclaimer: I don't like Linux.) I think it probably is no bad idea. I don't like Linux either, but I don't think it's so irremediably disastrous that there's nothing at all NetBSD could learn from it. > BTW: OSF/1 aka DEC-Unix aka Tru64-Unix did somthing like Linux + > udevd(8) over 10 years ago. Another reason to think that it's likely worth trying. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
