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+-------[ Stijn Hoop ]----------------------
| On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:32:16PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
| > Please also remember:  /dev is _not_ an inventory of available devices.
| 
| Just curious: what is it then? An inventory of available drivers? An
| inventory of open devices?

A collection of system calls on disk. d8)

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