Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 16:53:48 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) Message-ID: <20000508165348.A9796@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200005082142.PAA80155@harmony.village.org>; from "Warner Losh" on Mon May 8 15:42:01 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005071107200.7876-100000@beppo.feral.com> <200005082142.PAA80155@harmony.village.org>
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In the last episode (May 08), Warner Losh said: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005071107200.7876-100000@beppo.feral.com> Matthew Jacob writes: > : Oh, and in the updating of this, don't forget the FreeBSD usage of > : .ctl for tape devices- as far as I know this is the only *BSD that > : has this. > > Which devices use .ctl? sa and ast don't seem to use them now (at > the very least they aren't created by MAKEDEV by default). *.ctl is handy for getting status on a device that another process has open; if I'm dumping to /dev/nrsa0, I can run "mt -f /dev/rsa0.ctl status" on another tty and see what file/block position the tape is at. Dunno if it has any other use :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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