On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 03:18:45PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Then when applications open "/dev/capi20", and the kernel finds out that this 
> file does not exist, it should call a routine in my driver, and pass 
> "capi20". When my routine recognizes this string, it makes a new device 
> "/dev/capi20.000" and returns that to the application. When another 
> application opens "/dev/capi20", "/dev/capi20.001" will be returned and so 
> on. When the application closes this device, they will be recycled.

Cloning devices are supported on NetBSD - e.g. /dev/bpf or /dev/ptmx
are such cloning devices.  The nodes in /dev are not created indeed, but 
actual nodes are rarely needed anyway.

Jaromir
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