Rahul Sundaram wrote:
AFAIK device names are not part of LSB. You would have to sign up to
the open list there and make a argument telling folks why you bother
about device names at all.
Unix-like systems go to great lengths to make device access identical to
files (except
for Linux's odd treatment of the network devices which bypasses the
usual access
control mechanism in open()). Any argument that file names and paths
should be
standardized should automatically apply to devices because of the philosophy
that "everything's a file".
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Les Mikesell
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