From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:16:20 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <5d375e920901040501pb75aceat3129486817f8cbb1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices Topicbox-Message-UUID: 784708c4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Seems that despite the many years of thinking, this is still a tricky > problem, and # has turned out to be 'good enough' to keep any > alternative from appearing. A judgement call, no doubt. But the list of failings doesn't seem very long to me. I'd say that having a /dev pre-built into the kernel is far worse. And inadequate. ++L