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Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
To: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca (Richard Gooch)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:54:15 +0100 (BST)
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> However, a large number of people run devfs on small to large systems,
> and these "races" aren't causing problems. People tell me it's quite

They dont have users actively trying to exploit them. I don't consider it a 
big problem for development trees though. devfs has a maintainer at least

Alan 

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