*BSD News Article 15953


Return to BSD News archive

Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:338 comp.os.386bsd.development:728
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!rooij
From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: FYI: /dev/zero
Message-ID: <1993May12.103638.11002@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>
Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System)
Nntp-Posting-Host: mozart
Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 10:36:38 GMT
Lines: 6

There actually is kernel support for the zero device. I just
dont know the major minor by head, but it has the same
major as /dev/mem and for the minor see /sys/i386/i386/mem.c
It just isnt included in /dev/MAKEDEV

-Guido