Re: /dev/sndstat

[Adam D. Bradley]

> > Yes, it's a device node and not a /proc filesystem entry.  The reason
> > is to maximize the portability of the OSS code (they make money
> > selling it for other Unix variants...)
> > 
> 
> What about moving it to /proc/sound and creating a symbolic link
> /dev/sndstat -> /proc/sound for backwards compatibility? I think
> /proc/sound is much more elegant.

No, that breaks portability (consider platforms with no /proc fs, or
one that doesn't support text-file-like /proc entries). Doing it the
other way around, however (/proc/sndstat -> /dev/sndstat) would be
simple to implement and wouldn't require any modifications to the
sound driver.  Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort.
(Plus, that would be policy implemented in kernel-space.  Once again,
a layering filesystem could allow some more elegant approaches...
which is #5 on my list of "huge fun projects I wish I had time to 
implement"...)

Adam
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