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From: scott@altos86.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Large machines and tty naming conventions.
Message-ID: <392@altos86.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 13:25:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: altos86.392
Posted: Fri Sep  4 13:25:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 19:43:25 EDT
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Reply-To: scott@altos86.UUCP (Scott A. Rotondo)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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I wrote:

>> 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.

der Mouse responds:

>That is, looking up /dev/tty/p3 is no faster than looking up
>/dev/ttyp3, since both of them have to search through /dev.  The win
>occurs when /dev/ttyp3 doesn't exist and hence /dev is smaller, making
>searches through it faster.

Now wait a second.  There is no reason that the tty subdirectory has to 
appear under /dev.  You could easily make it /Dev/tty/p3 or something
similar and then you *would* get the faster searches without breaking old
code.


				-- Scott








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