Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) )

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew
 Jacob writes:
>> >Isn't this throwing an awful lot onto init?
>> 
>> Not really...
>> 
>> The meta-daemon part is no different from keeping gettys in the air...
>> 
>> The devd thing consists of selecting on some magic fd and running a
>> program when something happens.  This could be done with a getty
>> like daemon too of course.
>
>I was just thinking it could get tricky and have subtle ordering bugs of
>new tty devices, changes to ttys and signals all about the same time.

Well, they are no less subtle by having them in different processes...

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