Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs
Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 14:25:25 +1100
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 11:37:30PM +0100, Martin von Loewis wrote:
> > You also need to support the readlink method, which will yield
> > "fd:0,format=360" or some such. This leads to the confusing situation
> > where:
>
> No. As soon as it's a devlink, it will be reported as a device.
> If you then want to know the string inside, you'd need a special
> call.
lstat() !
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