From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 6 8:55: 2 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 7ACE337B40E for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 08:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BF043E65 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 08:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from emerger.yogotech.com (emerger.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04648; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:52:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by emerger.yogotech.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g96FqhZt069127; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:52:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15776.23627.339787.784895@emerger.yogotech.com> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:52:43 -0600 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Bruce Evans , Steve Kargl , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs oddity? In-Reply-To: <36088.1033885792@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20021006144225.G15291-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <36088.1033885792@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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 <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's certainly standard on every BSD based system I've ever used, which goes *WAY* back. (Every BSD OS vendor has done it this way, including Sun, DEC, HP, etc...) > It is also illogical, counter-intuitive and prone to mistakes. Then every standard is the same, since standards by their very nature are illogical. Doing something the same way is illogical? (If you haven't figured it out, I disagree *strongly* with the above statement.) > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Which also used 'c' as the entire 'whole' of a labelled disk device. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message