sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (12/12/84)
In fact, the Harvard and BBN PDP-11 and C/70 kernels have had "table
devices" installed for almost 5 years now. I believe a prototypical
device driver was distributed on a USENIX tape a few years ago. It
has all the advantages you allude to: greater security (these files
may more reliably have read permission than, say, kmem) as well as some
measure of include file independence, as long as structure tags are not
reordered--ioctls return the size of each element as well as the total number
of elements.
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/Steve Dyer
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