Alex Hornung wrote: > There will also be a userland daemon which will receive notifications > of new devices; this daemon will basically be used to keep a > configuration file for devfs including permissions and hence telling > the devfs in the kernel which permissions to use to create a specific > node. It could also be used to run specific programs/scripts/commands > whenever something new is attached.
Note that we already have such daemon - devd(8). Besides written in C++ (which in fact isn't big disadvantage for me personally) it works mostly although I think that it could be far more bulletproof to unusual situations - like flapping devices and interfaces etc. The fact that it's written in C++ also might be disadvantage in light of using alternative compilers for base. regards, -- Hasso Tepper
