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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 20 Dec 1996 16:23:53 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <59eeip$7k6@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58invm$s4b@abyss.west.sun.com> <58k7hn$nur@web.nmti.com> <58ma5l$kb2@abyss.west.sun.com> <58mnvu$h27@web.nmti.com> <58n5q1$9ci@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <58pdbt$mjv@web.nmti.com> <58r48o$t7q@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <5948aj$nci@web.nmti.com> <59brn8$nk9@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:93172 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1854 comp.unix.internals:11672 comp.unix.osf.osf1:17146 borchert@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert) wrote: > > (the Solaris device file system is awfully confusing) > > The nice feature is that device entries are generated automatically > during the boot phase (with the reconfiguration flag). You'll find the > traditional names under /dev/ and the hardware device names under > /devices. I do not know what you consider awfully confusing here. That there's not everything under /dev. Like for example Data General's DG/UX used to do it for at least 5 years now. Like FreeBSD's (not yet finalized) DEVFS is going to do, too. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j