linux.conf.au, January 2003 POLITICS: linux-kernel Mailing List On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Rusty Russell wrote: > > The method is: open /dev/futex STOP! What madness is this? You have a damn mutex system call, don't introduce mode crap in /dev. Do we create pipes by opening /dev/pipe? No. Do we have major and minor numbers for sockets and populate /dev with them? No. And as a result, there has _never_ been any sysadmin problems with either. You already have to have a system call to bind the particular fd to the futex _anyway_, so do the only sane thing, and allocate the fd _there_, and get rid of that stupid and horrible /dev/futed which only buys you pain, system administration, extra code, and a black star for being stupid. Linus