From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 16 07:23:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA01788 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:23:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA01777 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA02830 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:22:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA00287; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:37:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971016083755.EY27853@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:37:55 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: damn, damn, damn ... getting confused here. References: <344476E5.31DFF4F5@wired.ctech.ac.za> <19971015203230.7404.qmail@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19971015203230.7404.qmail@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu>; from Jason Alan Nordwick on Oct 15, 1997 20:32:30 -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jason Alan Nordwick wrote: > > What is the difference between a device like > > /dev/vn0 and /dev/vn0c ?? > IT is a character device, rather than a block device. No, both are buffered (``block'') devices. Raw (``character'') device names conventionally start with an `r'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)