Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 16:37:31 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I off my rocker? (/dev/tick device) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971223163730.00ddc9e0@etinc.com>
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At 09:38 PM 12/23/97 +0100, you wrote: >"J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" <jamil@acroal.com> wrote: > >> 1) I realize that (/dev/tick). However, the "clock" is a device, and >> in the UNIX spirit of things should also be a file. No? > >Not all of them. For example, network devices don't appear in the >filesystem in BSD (although i think this is just inconsistent with the >remainder of the OS). Network devices also dont have /dev access points. db
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