Julian Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A suggestion from a clueless newbie: have /dev be a translator driven file > system, make stuff appear there and disappear, to reflect the actual devices > attached to the system.
This is exactly what I would like to do also. The attempt I once began foundered on the lack of adequate kernel facilities to do it, but that's fixable. Note that the contents of this magic /dev would look just like the current /dev: a bunch of passive translators for the various devices.
