Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265814AbUAHSbE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:31:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265878AbUAHSbE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:31:04 -0500 Received: from p68.rivermarket.wintek.com ([208.13.56.68]:3482 "EHLO dust.p68.rivermarket.wintek.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265814AbUAHSbB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:31:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:35:01 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Goddard To: Ian Kent Cc: =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=Andrey Borzenkov=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: N/a X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: BCBC 0868 DB78 22F3 A657 785D 6E3B 7ACB 584E B835 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1197 Lines: 34 On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Alex Goddard wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Ian Kent wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, [koi8-r] "Andrey Borzenkov[koi8-r] " wrote: > > [Snip] > > > > I do care. Searching archives for devfs mostly brings "everyone knows > > > this is crap". That is why I kindly ask you to show real evidence that > > > the problems it has are unsolvable. > > > > Again I'm also unable to find descriptions of the 'unsolvable' races. > > > > I wouldn't mind knowing what they are either. Anyone? > > Can no one think of good search terms for these sorts of things these > days? From the first and only page of results for 'devfs unsolvable > races': > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105851630726585&w=2 Someone else already mentioned the many, many posts by Al Viro on this subject I was about to post a URL or two for. They make for good (and entertainingly flame-ridden) reading. -- Alex Goddard agoddard at purdue.edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/