> [...]. That makes devfs responsible to resolve confliction, which in > turn leads to some configuration thing, which I definitely want to > avoid.
You need some kind of persistent state *somewhere*, to support chmod, chown, mv, rm, etc. Or are you proposing to break those? That idea strikes me as a pretty crippling regression. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B