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particular developer(s). The <systemitem
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class="filesystem">devfs</systemitem> file system also suffers from race
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conditions that are inherent in its design and cannot be fixed without a
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- substantial revision to the kernel. It has also been marked as deprecated
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- due to a lack of recent maintenance.</para>
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+ substantial revision to the kernel. It was marked as deprecated for a long
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+ period – due to a lack of maintenance – and was finally removed
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+ from the kernel in June, 2006.</para>
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<para>With the development of the unstable 2.5 kernel tree, later released
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as the 2.6 series of stable kernels, a new virtual filesystem called
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