On Jan 05, 2006, at 02:44, Steven Noonan wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but what precisely was/is the problem with
devfs, anyway?
1) It had unfixable races (The device is created when the hardware
is detected but the module isn't loaded yet so the device doesn't work?)
2) The maintainer stopped maintaining it
3) It put naming policy (and a bad one at that) in the kernel where
it doesn't belong.
I'm sure there are more, but those are the basic ones.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/
philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Schulz
had the best answer:
"Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do
it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't.
That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life."
-- Charles Schulz
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