On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:40:54PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> An advantage to also supporting the ioctl interface is that it permits
> interface cloning to be used on systems where devfs is not used, or where
> there are parts of the system where devfs is unavailable (i.e., various
> forms of chroots). I think devfs is cool and all, but given the existance
> of fairly sensical non-devfs ways to do things, I'm tempted suggest
> supporting them also.
Actually, the currently implemented method doesn't required devfs. It's
just somewhat easier to use in the devfs case because it doesn't require
a mknod then. I think there are enough good reasons for following the
NetBSD example that's I'll probalby do it. I'm currently trying to
figure out how they implemented it.
-- Brooks
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