Garrett D'Amore writes:
> From my perspective, if the /dev/dsp interface is private, and has no
> consumers in userland today, then it is very very wrong to publish it.
No, that's not the issue.
I don't know what you mean by the word "publish" here. If you mean
documentation, then this is private, so there's no documentation
published. If you mean the contents of readdir("/dev"), then there's
no such requirement, and that's not "publishing" under any typical ARC
usage.
"Private" means "not documented." It also means that if it's feasible
and reasonable, we'll obscure it so that you don't blunder into it.
The issue I've been pointing out is that this *particular* name is
famous. It's available on many systems -- including Solaris! -- so
there will indeed be applications looking for it by that name.
If it's not intended to be used casually by people who think they know
what it is, *then* it needs to be hidden.
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