Re: a bug(?), some requests/suggestions

[Robert Siemer <Robert.Siemer@xxxxxx>]

From: pg_mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Piercarlo Grandi)

> * It might be rather useful if 'devfs', whether or not was mounted as
>   '/dev' or not, always mounted itself as '/proc/dev', as this would be
>   both logically appropriate and easy to rely upon.

This makes no sense, as devfs is something what makes
/proc/<not-a-process-number> obsolete. Richard told me to use devfs
for drivers instead of procfs. And he is right here. It's ugly to use
"files" in /proc/...  So it would make more sense to use
/dev/what-proc-was-some-times-ago/

Furthermore it is not a good thing to let devices apear where the
admin doesn't want to. Devices should apear, where devfs is mounted
to (maybe twice or more)...
And it's not easy to rely on /proc for procfs and to find "dev"
here. It's easier to rely on /dev as devfs.


Bye,
        Robert