From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265910AbUAHSK3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:10:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265911AbUAHSK3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:10:29 -0500 Received: from p68.rivermarket.wintek.com ([208.13.56.68]:4758 "EHLO dust.p68.rivermarket.wintek.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265910AbUAHSKX (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:10:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:14:18 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Goddard To: Ian Kent Cc: =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=Andrey Borzenkov=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: N/a X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: BCBC 0868 DB78 22F3 A657 785D 6E3B 7ACB 584E B835 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, [koi8-r] "Andrey Borzenkov[koi8-r] " wrote: [Snip] > > I do care. Searching archives for devfs mostly brings "everyone knows > > this is crap". That is why I kindly ask you to show real evidence that > > the problems it has are unsolvable. > > Again I'm also unable to find descriptions of the 'unsolvable' races. > > I wouldn't mind knowing what they are either. Anyone? Can no one think of good search terms for these sorts of things these days? From the first and only page of results for 'devfs unsolvable races': http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105851630726585&w=2 -- Alex Goddard agoddard at purdue.edu