Re: Can I open a special file with major/minor instead of name?

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 17:37:38 +1000


Dave Cinege writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> #1 because it's 2.0.34

Ah. Minor technical problem there. Of course, that leads to the
obvious question: why not use 2.1.x?

Regards,

Richard....

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