Re: Can I open a special file with major/minor instead of name?
Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 17:25:05 +1000
Dave Cinege writes:
> This is the code in do_linuxrc():
>
> (void) open("/dev/tty1",O_RDWR,0);
>
> This is what I want to do:
>
> (void) open( MKDEV(TTY_MAJOR,1) ,O_RDWR,0);
>
> This is why:
> I build all of /dev from /linuxrc, thus /dev/tty1 does not yet exist.
> Right now I have a work around but this way would be cleaner.
Why not use devfs?
Regards,
Richard....
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