Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:49:45 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: DEVFS oddity Message-ID: <20040213173919.F662@korben.in.tern>
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Hi, I've came across an oddity in devfs. The size of a symlink is the length of the "symbolic name", not the one of the target. Consider: $ ls -la /dev/ | grep ^l lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 13 Feb 16:01 dvd@ -> acd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 13 Feb 17:01 kbd0@ -> atkbd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 13 Feb 16:01 log@ -> /var/run/log lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 13 Feb 17:01 net1@ -> net/fxp0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 13 Feb 17:01 net2@ -> net/lo0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 13 Feb 16:02 net3@ -> net/ndis0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 13 Feb 17:01 stderr@ -> fd/2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 13 Feb 17:01 stdin@ -> fd/0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 13 Feb 17:01 stdout@ -> fd/1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 13 Feb 17:01 urandom@ -> random against: $ ls -l /sys lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 13 Feb 12:12 /sys@ -> usr/src/sys Is this considered a bug or a feature? :-) regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/
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