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On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 11:49, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > And while we are on the subject -- anyone out there figured out what to
> > do with 5.3/6.0 -- ttyUn/cuaUn devices are being created when you hit
> > "HotSync" and demolished promptly after sync is done, IMHO making
> > impossible to have daemon process looking out for the device.
> 
> I think /etc/devfs.conf can help with that.
> 
> Eric
> 
Can you by any chance elaborate? I have read all appropriate man pages
and could not come up with an idea of faking the node in /dev/ before it
actually is created and that's what (IMHO) needed to have daemon
listening on the dynamic device.

Or am I missing something?
---
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko.