2008/043 [Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris]

[James Carlson]

Freeman.Liu at Sun.COM writes:
> >Do you intend to promote /dev/dsp to higher visibility in a future
> >phase of the project?  If not, you should consider removing it and
> >have references to it refer instead to the corresponding node in
> >/devices (which already has private visibility).
> >  
> >
> Yes. Visibility and stability of /dev/dsp will be promoted in the 
> following phases.

Given that /dev/dsp is a well-known name, and applications are quite
likely to find it entirely by accident (for example, by way of
./configure tests), how will it be kept reasonably "private" until
you're ready to expose it?

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