Diego Calleja brought up this paper in reference to discussion of a devfs-style /dev system.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert linked to a patch he made to allow prebinding.
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Matt Dillon pointed out http://apollo.backplane.com/BSDCON2003/ now has pictures from the FreeBSD DevSummit.
You have missed a ‘>’ for the link.. :-)
Fixed… I need less haste when pasting.