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From: serge@euler.Berkeley.EDU serge@euler.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Plan 9 devices
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:13:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950426201340.0pomXbY6CK8i_rlqU000RdsYV2RQXuWbsiqnZG8h8dc@z> (raw)

>I was just wondering if it's possible to replace '#name' with,
>e.g. /dri(ver[s])/name (/wet/name? :-)

Some of the other possibilities would be /# (a bit of backwards
compatibility) or /local (for 'local' devices/drivers).  The (additional)
advantages would be one less hack ... er, excuse me syntactic
escape/special case, more uniformity, etc. :-) You could even
conceivably bind /cpu/dri/xxx to /dev/xxx to access cpu server's drivers?






             reply	other threads:[~1995-04-26 20:13 UTC|newest]

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1995-04-26 20:13 serge [this message]
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1995-04-26  0:52 serge
1995-04-20  8:59 Hans-Peter

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