Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:56:51 +1100

Kevin Lentin writes:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 11:23:34AM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > "=>" is used by ls to show a devlink, rather than "->". It also
> > requires a modified ls. You may also need to modify other programmes
> > which have directory browsers. I guess GNU tar would also need
> > changes.
>
> You don't NEED to change any software but it would be nice eg ls.
> I don't see any changes to tar being needed. tar stores the name and
> permissions and then restores them. Everything about the device is in the
> destination name. And tar already supports symlinks to nonexistant files

But, as I've already said, tar doesn't store whatever magic is needed
to tell the FS driver that this symlink is really a devlink.

Regards,

Richard....