> Of course, the real ideal thing would be to get a devfs and get rid > of the concept of major numbers.
For many purposes. But, if it's not possible to hand-build a /dev with only a few entries, that will cripple usefulness a number of possible locked-down uses, from chroot() to unusual setups like two I know of for an embedded product where /sbin/init is not a normal init(8) and /dev has only eight entries in one case or thirty in the other. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
