Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

[H. Peter Anvin]

"G. Allen Morris III" wrote:
>  >
>  > Exactly. This is the kind of thing that makes devfs worth it. Together
>  > with some way of specifying these things for the whole network (I wasn't
>  > kidding when I mentioned NIS) it actually gives system administrators
>  > something new. And it makes for more than just a regular /dev on a regular
>  > filesystem.
> 
> This sounds just like autofs to me!  The only difference with /dev is
> that you would be creating block or character special files instead of
> soft links and  nfs mounts.
> 

FWIW, it would be a trivial hack to make autofs capable of generating
device nodes on demand.  I have yet to see any strong use for that,
though; emphasis here on "on demand."

	-hpa