> >
> >I guess silence means Devfs works as expected :)))
>
> As long as you don't try and do what I'm doing <G>. I
> think devfs is a neat concept and from what I've read has
> a lot of advantages although my knowledge of devices under
> Linux has been limited to createing entries in /dev under
> the old system and making that work. I don't know what
> distros use it (not Caldera's old WS 3.1 or RH 7.3) so
> maybe most of the people I see aren't running distros with
> it.
>
Mandrake was one of the first distros to use it (in 8.0 IIRC). The first
attempt was a disaster, but since then we learned a bit :)
It is easy to screw up things when you use devfs. Basically, you should not
mess up with /dev unless _absolutely_ necessary and you _do_ know what you
are doing.
-andrey
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