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From: Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de>
To: Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev Questions
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 17:08:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305011708.52841.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB1358C.1020808@coyotegulch.com>

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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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Regards Michael Büsch
http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-01 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-01 14:56 /dev Questions Scott Robert Ladd
2003-05-01 15:08 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2003-05-02 14:58   ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-05-01 16:01 ` Greg KH

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