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From: scott@altos86.UUCP (Scott A. Rotondo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Large machines and tty naming conventions.
Message-ID: <382@altos86.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 20:32:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: altos86.382
Posted: Tue Aug  4 20:32:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 01:10:43 EDT
References: <8550@brl-adm.ARPA> <6200@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: scott@altos86.UUCP (Scott A. Rotondo)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <6200@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <8550@brl-adm.ARPA> jason@violet.Berkeley.EDU (Jason Venner) writes:
>>making directorys in /dev and putting files in there ...
>
>This is one of my favorite ideas.  However, it does impact code such as "ps"
>that "knew" the old scheme.

I'm not certain I see why this has to impact code that knows about the old
scheme.  Is there any reason you can't have both?  Just make the new 
directories contain links to the regular /dev entries.  Now you get the 
advantage of the faster searches while allowing old code to work exactly
as it always did.

				-- Scott


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