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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: An idea on devfs vs. udev
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:13:24 -0500
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Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:51:01AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:41:32AM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:23:09PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:18:12AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>But then to make matters worse, there is this "sample.sh" file.  UGH!
>>>>>It's a bit of shell code exported by the kernel.
>>>>>   #!/bin/sh
>>>>>   mknod /dev/hda  b 3 0
>>>>
>>>>That's just a "joke" patch that is only in the -mm tree, as it gets
>>>>pulled in from my tree.  It's not in mainline, and will never go there.
>>>
>>>Perhaps you can drop this horror now that Halloween has passed.
>>
>>Heh.  But why?  Is it causing problems for anyone?
> 
> 
> Someone else might take your joke seriously. Or worse yet, imitate it.
> See C++.
> 
It probably should be rewritten in C for efficiency.

;-) if you didn't guess...

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