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Subject: Re: Am I off my rocker? (/dev/tick device)
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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