Re: Of removable devices

[david parsons]

Alexander Viro wrote:

> On 16 Feb 2000, david parsons wrote:

> >    On a real operating system, the OS would simply notify userland, which
> >    would do whatever it wanted to do. [...]

> >    Think about kerneld/kmod/whatever it is this week.
> 
> Oh, _please_! kmod is the last thing you want here.

     You're suffering, I'm afraid, from an almost pathological lack of
     imagination.   I'm pointing out kerneld/kmod/whatever as an example
     of punting kernel events out to userspace for a daemon to deal
     with, not saying "we should do it exactly like kerneld, or kmod,
     or whatever the fuck the interface is this week"

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