From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 5 23:29:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D8837B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 23:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59C243E6E for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 23:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g966TqpS036089; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 08:29:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: Steve Kargl , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs oddity? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Oct 2002 15:01:06 +1000." <20021006144225.G15291-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 08:29:52 +0200 Message-ID: <36088.1033885792@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021006144225.G15291-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Steve Kargl wrote: > >> > In message <20021005221611.GA17396@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Kargl w >> > rites: >> > >root[208] cdcontrol play >> > >cdcontrol: no CD device name specified, defaulting to /dev/cd0c >> > >cdcontrol: /dev/cd0cc: No such file or directory >> > > >> > >Why is an extra "c" appended to cd0c? > >The first "c" is part of the standard name for the whole of a (labelled) >disk device. It's not any "standard name". It is a convention used on a minority of UNIX platforms out there, and it is certainly not "standard" even for BSD based systems. It is also illogical, counter-intuitive and prone to mistakes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message