Marty _ wrote:
Good answer, never investigated udev to be quite honest, just thought
it was another form of devfs from the guide.
To add to your note, there isnt a difference between the two, ive just
got so used to slackware's /dev style I couldnt handle the entire
directory tree the devfs mount produces.
Short story, udev is a user-space implementation of devfs.
Long story, udev is configurable by the sysadmin to an extent not
available with devfs, it tries to follow the "standard" linux device
naming structure where at all possible (the default udev config file we
provide aids in that a little), and it's not as susceptible to race
conditions that were present in devfs (but is still vulnerable to some
of them).
BTW, in case you didn't know, the minute you install a 2.6 kernel into a
Slackware 10.x system, you're using udev without even knowing it.
-J-
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