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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:52:42 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Devlinks.  Code.  (Dcache abuse?)
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On Nov 19, 2001  14:47 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
>  - devfs puts a lot of miscellaneous stuff in the top level.
>    I would want to group them into one namespace. e.g.:
>        misc/memory/mem
>        misc/memory/kmem
>        misc/memory/zero
>        misc/memory/null
>        misc/random/random
>        misc/random/urandom

Erm, what about the millions+ of scripts/apps that reference /dev/zero
or /dev/null?

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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