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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:30:48 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Jeff Dike wrote:
> hpa@zytor.com said:
> 
>>Access control, ability to work in a chroot, ...
> 
> 
> Point.
> 
> 
>>For major/minor, this is presumably a misc device (major 10) or, if
>>you don't need module support, a kernel core device (major 1), and
>>write to device@lanana.org to have a minor number assigned. 
> 
> 
> If you think that this would be better as a misc device than a proc entry,
> then I can certainly go along with that.
> 

Absolutely.  I think /proc is heavily overused as a really bad devfs.

	-hpa



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