Re: devfs

["john doe" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

heh

im actually starting the process of writing that automounter deal i was 
talking about earlier.  someone told me devfs has a userspace daemon that 
can flag another process when devices are added/removed/etc...

should make things alot easier (and i like the idea of getting signalled 
rather than having to poll constantly)

what i know of devfs (other than having heard its name tossed around) is 
that nodes are only created when something is actually there.  dont know 
about any problems with it, but i do think that having thousands of device 
nodes in /dev that are attached to nothing is a bad thing (but not knowing 
all that much about devfs i dont knwo if its the correct solution either).

is there any way you know of to get a signal in userspace when a device is 
added or removed?

Casey


>
>On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:46:52PM -0500, john doe wrote:
> > im going to be guessing that redhat 9 doesnt do devfs ...
>
>I'm going to break my rule about not saying anything if I can't say
>anything positive, but *why* would you want to use devfs?
>
>Steve
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