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Re: Missing /dev


On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:33:40PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
>There's no need.  As Chris Faylor has said in the past, we'll be moving
>away from this pseudo-device emulation.  That's a better resolution to the
>problem than perpetuating the current workaround.

AFAIK, mknod even works now...  The problem is, though, that it is bound
to be slower to use a disk-based /dev directory than the current in-memory
version.  So, the real solution is probably some kind of devfs or udev method,
like linux.

cgf

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