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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:30:10 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:41:18PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> emulated char devices to be char devices?  What I mean is, what would
>>> happen if instead of a char device /dev/dsp would be a regular file
>>> mounted on /dev/dsp (which implements all the necessary interfaces:
>>> ioctls, poll, etc)?
>> For most it would work, I suppose, but there are all sorts of wonky
>> users out in the wild (and quite a few that we don't have source access
>> to) and different configurations, so I think it's better to appear as
>> proper character device if it is a character device.  It will also help
>> udev and other desktop thingies deal with devices implemented in userland.
> 
> Note that mounting a char device on /dev/dsp is exactly the same as
> mounting a regular file on /dev/dsp - the only difference is what you
> set i_mode to.

A difference is how the device is located.  With proper character device
emulation, any char device node on any filesystem would work.  Not sure
how relevant that would be tho.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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