Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Several questions the second
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:00:41
Message-Id: wxx8zgoys9a.fsf@nommo.uio.no
1 "Peter Kadau" <peter.kadau@×××.de> writes:
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3 > why would you want to do that? (i mean: why discard defvfs)
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5 besides the "I don't like stuff I don't really need", devfs has
6 race-conditions. even Gooch has said so on l-k. his comments where
7 down the line of saying that he wouldn't run it on a production
8 system with many users, because of these race conditions.
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10 this was 4-5-6 months ago or something like that. I personally run
11 devfs in private, but I don't use devfs on any box I admin anywhere
12 else. IMVHO it falls into the "nice to have, but not worth the
13 potential risk"-category.
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16 Terje