Re: /dev Questions

From: Michael Buesch (fsdeveloper@yahoo.de)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 10:08:21 EST


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On Thursday 01 May 2003 16:56, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Why does /dev include devices that do not exist?
>
> Wouldn't it be friendlier to only list existing devices?
>
> Or am I missing something obvious?

yea, you're missing devfs. :)

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