In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robe
rt Watson writes:
>> http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/gif.diff
>>
>> has been updated. I'm still thinking about adopting the NetBSD
>> SIOIF{CREATE,DESTORY} interface.
>
>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.
As I already said: a device with no other precense in /dev has only
"quick&dirty" reasons for using DEVFS cloning.
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