Randy Dunlap wrote:
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>> Come on people, adding symlinks for device major:minor numbers in sysfs
>> to save a few 10s of lines of userspace code?  Can things get sillier?
>>
>> You can add a single udev rule to probably build these in a tree in /dev
>> if you really need such a thing...
>>
>> And what's wrong with your new ioctl recomendation?
> 
> Ah, there's some sanity.  :)
> 

It's not so much an issue of a few tens of lines of user space code, but 
rather the fact that something that should be O(1) is currently O(n).

	-hpa
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