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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!spool.mu.edu!torn!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Some ideas on the driver interface (was: Re: Release of drivers etc.) Message-ID: <C3AL86.Kt5@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 3 Mar 93 02:50:29 GMT References: <CGD.93Feb24023053@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1993Feb24.130019.9933@gmd.de> <C32vAt.3t9.1@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill University Lines: 22 In article <C32vAt.3t9.1@cs.cmu.edu> cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes: > >It seems like the real solution is do away with this "/dev/xxx" brain >damage entirely. Why use the file system to replicate state that the >kernel is perfectly capable of managing by itself??? I've always considered this to be one of the neater things about UNIX. Everything, to some degree, can be represented as a file, and you don't have to have the same complete isolation from the hardware as one has under say DOS or Windows... I don't know much about how practical this is, but it's certainly rather nice to be able to just cat something to /dev/tty?? and things like that.... ToodlepiP! Marc 'em. -- storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill P.O.W Camp "Oh crap---It's not Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA random enough" Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran.